² “How you have helped the powerless!^(A)
    How you have saved the arm that is feeble!^(B)
3 What advice you have offered to one without wisdom!
    And what great insight^(C) you have displayed!
⁴ Who has helped you utter these words?
    And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?^(D)

⁵ “The dead are in deep anguish,^(E)
    those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
⁶ The realm of the dead^(F) is naked before God;
    Destruction^[a](G) lies uncovered.^(H)
7 He spreads out the northern skies^(I) over empty space;
    he suspends the earth over nothing.^(J)
8 He wraps up the waters^(K) in his clouds,^(L)
    yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.
⁹ He covers the face of the full moon,
    spreading his clouds^(M) over it.
¹⁰ He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters^(N)
    for a boundary between light and darkness.^(O)
11 The pillars of the heavens quake,^(P)
    aghast at his rebuke.
¹² By his power he churned up the sea;^(Q)
    by his wisdom^(R) he cut Rahab^(S) to pieces.
¹³ By his breath the skies^(T) became fair;
    his hand pierced the gliding serpent.^(U)
14 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)