2  “How you have helped him who has no power!

How you have saved the arm that has no strength!

3  ^tHow you have counseled him who has no wisdom,

and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

4  With whose help have you uttered words,

and ^uwhose breath has come out from you?

5  The dead tremble

under the waters and their inhabitants.

6  ^vSheol is naked before God,¹

and Abaddon has no covering.

7  He stretches out the north over the void

and hangs the earth on nothing.

8  He binds up the waters in his thick clouds,

and the cloud is not split open under them.

9  He covers the face of the full moon²

and spreads over it his cloud.

10  He has ^winscribed a circle on the face of the waters

at the boundary between light and darkness.

11  ^xThe pillars of heaven tremble

and are astounded at his rebuke.

12  ^yBy his power he stilled the sea;

by his understanding he shattered ^zRahab.

13  By his wind the heavens were made fair;

his hand pierced ^athe fleeing serpent.

14  Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways,

and how small a whisper do we hear of him!

But the thunder of his power who can understand?”