² ‘Do not think that you have helped me,
    a weak and helpless man.
Nothing that you have said makes me feel stronger.
³ What good advice have you given me
    to make me wise?
You have not really shown me how clever you are!
⁴ Someone must have helped you to say these wise words.
    Who has put all these thoughts in your minds?

⁵ Dead people shake with fear.
    They are under the deep waters.
⁶ God sees everything that happens
    in the place of dead people.
Nothing can hide that terrible place from him.
⁷ He puts the skies in their place in the north,
    so that they cover empty space.
He hangs the earth in the skies
    and it stays there.
⁸ He fills the clouds with water.
    They become heavy but they do not break.
⁹ When the moon is big and round, he hides it.
    He causes clouds to cover it.
¹⁰ He marks the border between the sea and the sky.
    It is the place where the night finishes and the day begins.
¹¹ When God is angry,
    he shouts at the pillars under the sky.
When they hear his command,
    they shake with fear.
¹² He used his power to control the sea.
He used his wisdom to destroy Rahab,
    the great sea monster.
¹³ He used his breath to make the sky become bright.
With his hand he cut the great sea snake
    as it ran away.
¹⁴ These are only a few of the things that God does.
    We only know about a few small things.
If he used all of his power,
    we could never understand.’