1 Who Can Understand God? Then Job answered and said,2 “What a help you are to the one without power!How you have saved the arm without strength!3 “What counsel you have given toonewithout wisdom!What sound wisdom you have abundantly made known!4 “To whom have you declared words?And whose breath comes out from you?5 ¶“The 26:5Or shades; Heb Rephaim departed spirits trembleUnder the waters and their inhabitants.6 “Naked is Sheol before Him,And 26:6Lit the realm of destruction Abaddon has no covering.7 “He stretches out the north over what is formlessAnd hangs the earth on nothing.8 “He wraps up the waters in His clouds,And the cloud does not break out under them.9 “He 26:9Lit covers obscures the face ofHis 26:9Or full moon throneAnd spreads His cloud over it.10 “He has marked a circle on the surface of the watersAt the boundary of light and darkness.11 “The pillars of heaven trembleAnd are astonished at His rebuke.12 “He quieted the sea with His power,And by His understanding He crushed Rahab.13 “By His breath the heavens aremadebeautiful;His hand has pierced the fleeing serpent.14 “Behold, these are the fringes of His ways;And howonly witha whisper of a word do we hear of Him!But His mighty thunder, who can understand?”