1. But Job answered and said,
2. How have you helped him that is without power? how do you save the arm that has no strength?
3. How have you counseled him that has no wisdom? and how have you plentifully declared the thing as it is?
4. To whom have you spoken words? and whose spirit came from you?
5. Dead things are brought forth from beneath the waters, and that which dwells there.
6. Hell is naked before him, and destruction has no covering.
7. He stretches out the north over the empty place, and hangs the earth upon nothing.
8. He binds up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not torn under them.
9. He hides the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud upon it.
10. He has encircled the waters with boundaries, until the day and night come to an end.
11. The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.
12. He divides the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through the proud.
13. By his spirit he has adorned the heavens; his hand has formed the crooked serpent.
14. Lo, these are only the edges of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?