JOB 26 [†]Then Job answered and said:

2[†] “How you have  x helped him who has no power!

How you have saved  y the arm that has no strength!

3 How you have  z counseled him who has no wisdom,

and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

4[†] With whose help have you uttered words,

and whose breath  a has come out from you?

5[†] The  b dead tremble

under the waters and their inhabitants.

6 Sheol is  c naked before God, [1]

and  d Abaddon has no covering.

7 He  e stretches out the north over  f the void

and hangs the earth on nothing.

8 He  g 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 moon [2]

and  h spreads over it his cloud.

10 He has inscribed  i a circle on the face of the waters

at the boundary between light and darkness.

11[†]  j The pillars of heaven tremble

and are astounded at his  k rebuke.

12 By his power he  l stilled the sea;

by his understanding he shattered  m Rahab.

13[^]  n By his wind the heavens were made fair;

his hand pierced  o the fleeing serpent.

14 Behold, these are but the outskirts of his  p ways,

and how small  q a whisper do we hear of him!

But the thunder of his power who can understand?”