1 Jó tomou então a palavra nestes termos:

2 Como sabes sustentar bem o fraco, e socorrer um braço sem vigor!

3 Como sabes aconselhar o ignorante, e dar mostras de abundante sabedoria!

4 A quem diriges este discurso? Sob a inspiração de quem falas tu?

5 As sombras agitam-se embaixo {da terra}, as águas e seus habitantes {estão temerosos}.

6 A região dos mortos está aberta diante dele, os infernos não têm véu.

7 Estende o setentrião sobre o vácuo, suspende a terra acima do nada.

8 Prende as águas em suas nuvens, e as nuvens não se rasgam sob seu peso.

9 Vela a face da lua, estendendo sobre ela uma nuvem.

10 Traçou um círculo à superfície das águas, onde a luz confina com as trevas.

11 As colunas do céu estremecem e assustam-se com a sua ameaça.

12 Com seu poder levanta o mar, com sua sabedoria destruiu Raab.

13 Seu sopro varreu os céus, e sua mão feriu a serpente fugitiva.

14 Eis que tudo isso não é mais que o contorno de suas obras, e se apenas percebemos um fraco eco dessas obras, quem compreenderá o trovão de 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.