² “How you have helped the powerless!
    How you have saved the arm without strength!
³ How you have counseled the one without wisdom
    and revealed your abundant insights!
⁴ To whom have you uttered words?
    Whose spirit has come from your mouth?

⁵ “The dead tremble—those beneath the water
    and all that live in them.
⁶ Sheol is naked before Him;
    Abaddon has no covering.^[a]
7 He stretches out the north over the void;
    He suspendsthe earth over nothing.
⁸ He wraps up the waters in His clouds,
    yet the clouds do not burst under them.
⁹ He covers the face of the full moon,
    spreading His clouds over it.
¹⁰ He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters,
    for a boundary between light and dark.
¹¹ The pillars of heaven tremble,
    astounded at His rebuke!
¹² By His power He churns up the sea;
    by His understanding He smashed Rahab.
¹³ By His Ruach the heavens are clear;
    His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
¹⁴ Indeed, these are but glimpses of His ways; how faint the whisper, we hear of Him!
Who then can understand the thunder of His might?”