2 “How
you have helped the powerless!
How you have saved the arm that is feeble! 3 What advice you have offered to one without wisdom!
And what great insight you have displayed! 4 Who has helped you utter these words?
And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?
5 “The
dead are in deep anguish,
those beneath the waters and all that live in them. 6 The realm of the dead is naked before God;
Destruction[a] lies
uncovered. 7 He spreads out the northern skies over empty space;
he suspends the earth over nothing. 8 He wraps up the waters in his clouds,
yet the clouds do not burst under their weight. 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 darkness. 11 The pillars of the heavens quake,
aghast at his rebuke. 12 By his power he churned up the sea;
by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces. 13 By his breath the skies became fair;
his hand pierced the gliding serpent. 14 And these are but the outer fringe of his works;
how faint the whisper we hear of him!
Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”
