Study Desk

Job

Then Job replied:

"How you have helped the powerless!^(a) How you have saved the arm that is feeble!^(b)

What advice you have offered to one without wisdom! And what great insight^(c) you have displayed!

Who has helped you utter these words? And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?^(d)

"The dead are in deep anguish,^(e) those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

The realm of the dead^(f) is naked before God; Destruction^[a](g) lies uncovered.^(h)

He spreads out the northern skies⁽ⁱ⁾ over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing.^(j)

He wraps up the waters^(k) in his clouds,^(l) yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.

He covers the face of the full moon, spreading his clouds^(m) over it.

He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters⁽ⁿ⁾ for a boundary between light and darkness.^(o)

The pillars of the heavens quake,^(p) aghast at his rebuke.

By his power he churned up the sea;^(q) by his wisdom^(r) he cut Rahab^(s) to pieces.

By his breath the skies^(t) became fair; his hand pierced the gliding serpent.^(u)

And these are but the outer fringe of his works; how faint the whisper^(v) we hear of him!^(w) Who then can understand the thunder of his power?"^(x)