² “How you have helped the powerless!
    How you have saved the weak!
³ How you have enlightened my stupidity!
    What wise advice you have offered!
⁴ Where have you gotten all these wise sayings?
    Whose spirit speaks through you?

⁵ “The dead tremble—
    those who live beneath the waters.
⁶ The underworld^[a] is naked in God’s presence.
    The place of destruction^[b] is uncovered.
⁷ God stretches the northern sky over empty space
    and hangs the earth on nothing.
⁸ He wraps the rain in his thick clouds,
    and the clouds don’t burst with the weight.
⁹ He covers the face of the moon,^[c]
    shrouding it with his clouds.
¹⁰ He created the horizon when he separated the waters;
    he set the boundary between day and night.
¹¹ The foundations of heaven tremble;
    they shudder at his rebuke.
¹² By his power the sea grew calm.
    By his skill he crushed the great sea monster.^[d]
13 His Spirit made the heavens beautiful,
    and his power pierced the gliding serpent.
¹⁴ These are just the beginning of all that he does,
    merely a whisper of his power.
    Who, then, can comprehend the thunder of his power?”