1 Then Job answered,

2 "How have you helped him who is without power!

How have you saved the arm that has no strength!

3 How have you counseled him who has no wisdom,

and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

4 To whom have you uttered words?

Whose spirit came out of you?

5 "The departed spirits tremble,

those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

6 Sheol is naked before God,

and Abaddon has no covering.

7 He stretches out the north over empty space,

and hangs the earth on nothing.

8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds,

and the cloud is not burst under them.

9 He encloses the face of his throne,

and spreads his cloud on it.

10 He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters,

and to the confines of light and darkness.

11 The pillars of heaven tremble

and are astonished at his rebuke.

12 He stirs up the sea with his power,

and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.

13 By his Spirit the heavens are garnished.

His hand has pierced the swift serpent.

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

How small a whisper do we hear of him!

But the thunder of his power who can understand?"

1 Ano ra ko Hopa; i mea ia.

2 He hapai pehea tau i te kahakore? He whakaora pehea tau i te ringa ngoikore?

3 Ka tae tau whakatakoto whakaaro ma te whakaarokore! Te nui o tau whakaatu tikanga!

4 I puaki ki a wai au kupu? No wai te wairua i puta mai ra i a koe?

5 E wiri ana nga tupapaku i raro i te wai, me nga mea ano e noho ana i reira.

6 E takoto kau ana te reinga i tona aroaro, kahore hoki he hipoki mo te whakangaro.

7 E horahia atu ana e ia te raki ki runga ki te wahi takoto kau, whakairihia ana e ia te whenua ki runga ki te kahore noa iho.

8 E takaia ana e ia nga wai ki roto ki ana kapua matotoru; a kahore te kapua e pakaru i raro i a ratou.

9 E kaiponuhia ana e ia a mua o tona torona, horahia ana e ia tana kapua ki runga.

10 He mea karapoti nana nga wai, rohe rawa, a tae noa ki te mutunga mai o te marama me te pouri.

11 Wiri ana nga pou o te rangi, miharo ana ki tana whakatupehupehu.

12 Ko tona kaha hei whakakorikori i te moana, maru ana te whakakake i tona matauranga.

13 Na tona wairua i whakapaipai nga rangi; na tona ringa i wero te nakahi tere.

14 Na, he pito enei no ona ara; ano te iti o te wahi ona e rangona ana! Ko te whatitiri ia o tona kaha, ko wai ka matau?