1Then Job answered,
2“How have you helped him who is without power!
How have you saved the arm that has no strength!
3How have you counseled him who has no wisdom,
and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
4To whom have you uttered words?
Whose spirit came out of you?
5“The departed spirits tremble,
those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
6Sheol is naked before God,
and Abaddon has no covering.
7He stretches out the north over empty space,
and hangs the earth on nothing.
8He binds up the waters in His thick clouds,
and the cloud is not burst under them.
9He encloses the face of His throne,
and spreads His cloud on it.
10He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters,
and to the confines of light and darkness.
11The pillars of heaven tremble
and are astonished at His rebuke.
12He stirs up the sea with His power,
and by His understanding He strikes through Rahab.
13By His Spirit the heavens are garnished.
His hand has pierced the swift serpent.
14Behold, these are but the outskirts of His ways.
How small a whisper do we hear of Him!
But the thunder of His power who can understand?”
1Respondens autem Job dixit: 2Cujus adjutor es? numquid imbecillis? et sustentas brachium ejus qui non est fortis? 3Cui dedisti consilium? forsitan illi qui non habet sapientiam: et prudentiam tuam ostendisti plurimam. 4Quem docere voluisti? nonne eum qui fecit spiramentum? 5Ecce gigantes gemunt sub aquis, et qui habitant cum eis. 6Nudus est infernus coram illo, et nullum est operimentum perditioni. 7Qui extendit aquilonem super vacuum, et appendit terram super nihilum. 8Qui ligat aquas in nubibus suis, ut non erumpant pariter deorsum. 9Qui tenet vultum solii sui, et expandit super illud nebulam suam. 10Terminum circumdedit aquis, usque dum finiantur lux et tenebræ. 11Columnæ cæli contremiscunt, et pavent ad nutum ejus. 12In fortitudine illius repente maria congregata sunt, et prudentia ejus percussit superbum. 13Spiritus ejus ornavit cælos, et obstetricante manu ejus, eductus est coluber tortuosus. 14Ecce hæc ex parte dicta sunt viarum ejus: et cum vix parvam stillam sermonis ejus audierimus, quis poterit tonitruum magnitudinis illius intueri?