And Iyyov answered and said,

Then Iyyov raised his voice and said:

How hast thou helped him that is without power? how hast thou saved the arm that has no strength?

How have you helped him who has no strength? [How have] you helped him who has no power [in his] arm?

How hast thou counselled him that has no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared sound wisdom?

What have you counseled without wisdom? Have you imparted an abundance of knowledge?

To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?

To whom have you told [these] things, and whose breath has issued forth from you? [i.e., Doesn't everybody know this?]

The shades tremble; the waters beneath with the inhabitants thereof.

The shades [i.e., Gehinnom (with seven hollows)] which were hollowed out [in the depths], water beneath [them], and their dwellers

She᾽ol is naked before him, and Avaddon has no covering.

— Sheol is bared before Him, and there is no covering to hell.

He stretches out the north over the empty place, and hangs the earth upon nothing.

He props the north on a void; He suspends the earth on nothingness.

He binds up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.

He ties the waters in His thick clouds, and the clouds do not burst beneath them.

He closes in the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud upon it.

He closes in [(with partitions)] the face of His throne, and spreads His cloud upon it [viz. Ezekiel 1:22]

He has compassed the waters with bounds, at the boundary between light and darkness.

He has circumscribed a statute [(the sand)] around the face of the waters, [to endure] until the end of light and darkness.

The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.

The pillars of heaven trembled [(at the creation)], and they were stunned [still] by His shout.

He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smites through Rahav.

In His strength He split the sea, and in His understanding He smote the [Egyptian] host.

By his wind the heavens were made fair; his hand slew the slant serpent.

He tented the heavens with His breath, and His hand formed the [sea-] spanning Leviathan [(Pharaoh)].

Lo, these are parts of his ways, and how terrifying is the thing that is heard of him; but the thunder of his power who can understand?

These are but a few of His deeds. And what vestige of a thing [can a man] understand of it? Who, then, will comprehend the thunder of His mighty [deeds]?