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Then Job responded,
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"What a help you are to athe weak! How you have saved the arm bwithout strength!
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"What counsel you have given to one without wisdom! What helpful insight you have abundantly provided!
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"To whom have you uttered words? And whose spirit was expressed through you?
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"The adeparted spirits tremble Under the waters and their inhabitants.
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"Naked is aSheol before Him, And bAbaddon has no covering.
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"He astretches out the north over empty space And hangs the earth on nothing.
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"He awraps up the waters in His clouds, And the cloud does not burst under them.
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"He aobscures the face of the full moon And spreads His cloud over it.
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"He has inscribed a acircle on the surface of the waters At the bboundary of light and darkness.
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"The pillars of heaven tremble And are amazed at His rebuke.
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"He aquieted the sea with His power, And by His bunderstanding He shattered cRahab.
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"By His breath the aheavens are cleared; His hand has pierced bthe fleeing serpent.
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"Behold, these are the fringes of His ways; And how faint aa word we hear of Him! But His mighty bthunder, who can understand?"
Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, Copyright © 1960,1962,1963,1968,1971,1972,1973,1975,1977,1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.