¹Job answered and said:

²How you have helped one of no strength, you saved an arm of no might!

³How you have counseled one without wisdom, and sound wisdom in abundance you have made known!

⁴To whom have you told words, and whose breath came out from you?

⁵The shades writhe from beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.

⁶Sheol is naked before him, and Abaddon has no covering.

⁷He stretches out the north over the shapeless, he hangs the land over nothing.

⁸He binds up the waters in his clouds, and the cloud is not split open under them.

⁹He grasps the face of his throne, spreading his cloud over it.

¹⁰He has drawn a circle as a boundary on the face of the waters, to the completion of light with darkness.

¹¹The pillars of the skies shake, and are astounded at his rebuke.

¹²By his strength he stirred up the sea, and by his understanding he shattered Rahab.

¹³By his wind the skies are clear; his hand pierced the fleeing snake.

¹⁴Behold, these are the ends of his ways, and what a whisper of a word we hear in it! But the thunder of his victories, who can discern?