1 Then Job answered and said:
2 “How you havexIsa. 40:29 helped him who has no power!
How you have savedyGen. 49:24; Hos. 7:15 the arm that has no strength!
3 How you havezPs. 73:24; James 1:5 counseled him who has no wisdom,
and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
4 With whose help have you uttered words,
and whose breathaGen. 2:7 has come out from you?
5 ThebPs. 88:10 dead tremble
under the waters and their inhabitants.
6 Sheol iscPs. 139:8; Prov. 15:11 naked before God,
anddRev. 9:11 Abaddon has no covering.
7 HeeSee ch. 9:8 stretches out the north overf[Gen. 1:2] the void
and hangs the earth on nothing.
8 HegProv. 30:4 binds up the waters in his thick clouds,
and the cloud is not split open under them.
9 He covers the face of the full moon1Or his throne
andh[ch. 36:29] spreads over it his cloud.
10 He has inscribediProv. 8:29; [ch. 38:8-11; Ps. 33:7; Jer. 5:22] a circle on the face of the waters
at the boundary between light and darkness.
11 jch. 9:6; Ps. 75:3 The pillars of heaven tremble
and are astounded at hiskPs. 104:7 rebuke.
12 By his power helIsa. 51:15; Jer. 31:35 stilled the sea;
by his understanding he shatteredmSee ch. 9:13 Rahab.
13 n[Ps. 33:6] By his wind the heavens were made fair;
his hand piercedoIsa. 27:1 the fleeing serpent.
14 Behold, these are but the outskirts of hispch. 40:19 ways,
and how smallqch. 4:12 a whisper do we hear of him!
But the thunder of his power who can understand? ”