¹ Then Job answered, ² “How have you helped him who is without power! ³ How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, ⁴ To whom have you uttered words? ⁵ “The departed spirits tremble,
those beneath the waters and all that live in them. ⁶ Sheol¹ is naked before God, ⁷ He stretches out the north over empty space, ⁸ He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, ⁹ He encloses the face of his throne, ¹⁰ He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, ¹¹ The pillars of heaven tremble ¹² He stirs up the sea with his power, ¹³ By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. ¹⁴ Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways.