Job: what a help you have been
1Then Job answered: 2What a help you have been to the powerless! What a rescue for the arm with no strength! 3What counsel you have given to one with no wisdom, and what sound sense, in such abundance! 4Who did you say these words to? And whose breath came out of you? 5The Rephaim writhe beneath the waters, and all who live there. 6Sheol lies naked before him, and Abaddon has no covering. 7He stretches the north out over the void and hangs the earth on nothing. 8He binds up the waters in his clouds, and the cloud does not split under them. 9He shuts off the face of the throne, spreading his cloud across it. 10He has drawn a circle on the face of the waters, out to the boundary of light and darkness. 11The pillars of heaven shudder, stunned at his rebuke. 12By his power he stilled the sea; by his understanding he shattered Rahab. 13By his breath the heavens turned clear; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent. 14See, these are the fringes of his ways. What a whisper of a word we hear of him! And the thunder of his power — who could take that in?
