1. Then Job replied ⌊to his friends⌋,
2. “You have helped the person who has no powerand saved the arm that isn’t strong.
3. You have advised the person who has no wisdomand offered so much assistance.
4. To whom have you spoken ⌊these⌋ words,and whose spirit has spoken through you?
5. “The souls of the dead tremble beneath the water,and so do the creatures living there.
6. Sheol is naked in God’s presence,and Abaddon has no clothing.
7. “He stretches out his heavens over empty space.He hangs the earth on nothing whatsoever.
8. He holds the water in his thick clouds,and the clouds don’t ⌊even⌋ split under its ⌊weight⌋.
9. He covers his throneby spreading his cloud over it.
10. He marks the horizon on the surface of the waterat the boundary where light meets dark.