Job

Then Job replied:

     2             “How you have helped the powerless!

         How you have saved the arm that is feeble!

     3             What advice you have offered to one without wisdom!

         And what great insight you have displayed!

     4             Who has helped you utter these words?

         And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?

     5             “The dead are in deep anguish,

         those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

     6             The realm of the dead is naked before God;

         Destruction lies uncovered.

     7             He spreads out the northern skies over empty space;

         he suspends the earth over nothing.

     8             He wraps up the waters in his clouds,

         yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.

     9             He covers the face of the full moon,

         spreading his clouds over it.

     10            He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters

         for a boundary between light and darkness.

     11            The pillars of the heavens quake,

         aghast at his rebuke.

     12            By his power he churned up the sea;

         by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.

     13            By his breath the skies became fair;

         his hand pierced the gliding serpent.

     14            And these are but the outer fringe of his works;

         how faint the whisper we hear of him!

         Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”