² “How you have helped him who has no power!
    How you have saved the arm that has no strength!
³ How you have counselled 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,^[a]
    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^[b]
    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?”