Job 26:1–14

¹And Job proceeded to answer and say:

²“O how much help you have been to one without power!
O [how] you have saved an arm that is without strength!

³How much you have advised one that is without wisdom,
And you have made practical wisdom itself known to the multitude!

⁴To whom have you told words,
And whose breath has come forth from you?

⁵Those impotent in death keep trembling
Beneath the waters and those residing in them.

⁶She′ol is naked in front of him,
And [the place of] destruction has no covering.

⁷He is stretching out the north over the empty place,
Hanging the earth upon nothing;
⁸Wrapping up the waters in his clouds,
So that the cloud mass is not split under them;
⁹Enclosing the face of the throne,
Spreading out over it his cloud.

¹⁰He has described a circle upon the face of the waters,
To where light ends in darkness.

¹¹The very pillars of heaven shake,
And they are amazed because of his rebuke.

¹²By his power he has stirred up the sea,
And by his understanding he has broken the stormer to pieces.

¹³By his wind he has polished up heaven itself,
His hand has pierced the gliding serpent.

¹⁴Look! These are the fringes of his ways,
And what a whisper of a matter has been heard of him!
But of his mighty thunder who can show an understanding?”