1 Jó, porém, respondeu, dizendo:

2 Como ajudaste aquele que não tinha força, e sustentaste o braço que não tinha vigor?

3 Como aconselhaste aquele que não tinha sabedoria, e plenamente fizeste saber a causa, assim como era?

4 A quem proferiste palavras, e de quem é o espírito que saiu de ti?

5 Os mortos tremem debaixo das águas, com os seus moradores.

6 O inferno está nu perante ele, e não há coberta para a perdição.

7 O norte estende sobre o vazio; e suspende a terra sobre o nada.

8 Prende as águas nas suas nuvens, todavia a nuvem não se rasga debaixo delas.

9 Encobre a face do seu trono, e sobre ele estende a sua nuvem.

10 Marcou um limite sobre a superfície das águas em redor, até aos confins da luz e das trevas.

11 As colunas do céu tremem, e se espantam da sua ameaça.

12 Com a sua força fende o mar, e com o seu entendimento abate a soberba.

13 Pelo seu Espírito ornou os céus; a sua mão formou a serpente enroscadiça.

14 Eis que isto são apenas as orlas dos seus caminhos; e quão pouco é o que temos ouvido dele! Quem, pois, entenderia o trovão do seu poder?

1 Then Job made answer and said,

2 How have you given help to him who has no power! how have you been the salvation of the arm which has no strength!

3 How have you given teaching to him who has no wisdom, and fully made clear true knowledge!

4 To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you?

5 The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.

6 The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil.

7 By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.

8 By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.

9 By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.

10 By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.

11 The pillars of heaven are shaking, and are overcome by his sharp words.

12 By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded.

13 By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.

14 See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.