1Then answered Job, and said,

2What assistance hast thou given to the powerless? [how] hast thou helped the arm without strength?

3How hast thou counselled the unwise? and what sound wisdom hast thou made known so plentifully?

4To whom hast thou told words? and whose spirit came from thee?

5The departed are called into being beneath the waters, and their inhabitants.

6Naked is the nether world before him, and there is no covering for the place of corruption.

7He stretched out the north over empty space; he suspended the earth on nothing;

8He bound up the waters in his clouds; and the cloud bursteth not under their weight;

9He closed up the surface of his throne, spreading over it his cloud;

10A fixed limit he compassed off over the face of the waters, for the division of the light and darkness.

11The pillars of heaven tremble greatly, and are astounded at his rebuke.

12By his power he split in pieces the sea, and by his understanding he crushed [its] pride:

13By his breath the heavens [acquired] beauty; his hand hath created the flying serpent.

14Lo, these are ends of his ways; for how slight a whisper is heard [by us] of him! but the thunder of his mighty deeds who can understand?