¹ Then Job replied: ² “How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the arm that is feeble! ³ What advice you have offered to one without wisdom! And what great insight you have displayed! ⁴ Who has helped you utter these words? And whose spirit spoke from your mouth? ⁵ “The dead are in deep anguish, those beneath the waters and all that live in them. ⁶ The realm of the dead is naked before God; Destruction lies uncovered. ⁷ He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing. ⁸ He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.