Job: Who Can Understand God’s Majesty?

¹ Then Job answered:

² “How you have helped the powerless

and saved the arm that is feeble!

³ How you have counseled the unwise

and provided fully sound insight!

⁴ To whom have you uttered these words?

And whose spirit spoke through you?

⁵ The dead tremble —

those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.

⁶ Sheol is naked^* before God,

and Abaddon has no covering.

⁷ He stretches out the north^* over empty space;

He hangs the earth upon nothing.

⁸ He wraps up the waters in His clouds,

yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.

⁹ He covers^* the face of the full moon,^*

spreading over it His cloud.

¹⁰ He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters

at the boundary between light and darkness.

¹¹ The foundations of heaven quake,

astounded at His rebuke.

¹² By His power He stirred the sea;

by His understanding He shattered Rahab.

¹³ By His breath the skies were cleared;

His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

¹⁴ Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways;^*

how faint is the whisper we hear of Him!

Who then can understand

the thunder of His power?”