Job 26.1
English standard version

Intervention n° 9 de Job

¹ Then Job answered and said:
² How you have helped him who has no power!
How you have saved the arm that has no strength!
³ How you have counseled him who has no wisdom,
and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
⁴ With whose help have you uttered words,
and whose breath has come out from you?
⁵ The dead tremble
under the waters and their inhabitants.
⁶ Sheol is naked before God,
and Abaddon has no covering.
⁷ He stretches out the north over the void
and hangs the earth on nothing.
⁸ He 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
and spreads over it his cloud.
¹⁰ He has inscribed a circle on the face of the waters
at the boundary between light and darkness.
¹¹ The pillars of heaven tremble
and are astounded at his rebuke.
¹² By his power he stilled the sea;
by his understanding he shattered Rahab.
¹³ By his wind the heavens were made fair;
his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
¹⁴ Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways,
and how small a whisper do we hear of him!
But the thunder of his power who can understand?