¹Then Job answered,

¹约伯讥笑比勒达

²“How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!

²“无能力的，你怎样帮助他，膀臂无力的，你怎样拯救他！

³How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

³无智慧的，你怎样教导他，显明你丰盛的智慧！

⁴To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came forth from you?

⁴你靠谁发言呢？谁的灵从你而出呢？

⁵“Those who are deceased tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

⁵称赞　神伟大的作为阴魂和在水中居住的，都在水下痛苦不堪。

⁶ Sheol Sheol is the lower world or the grave. is naked before God, and Abaddon Abaddon means Destroyer. has no covering.

⁶阴间在　神面前赤露敞开，灭亡之处也没有遮盖。

⁷He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

⁷他把北极铺在空间，把地球挂在太空。

⁸He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.

⁸他把水包在密云中，水下面的云却不破裂。

⁹He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.

⁹他遮蔽自己宝座的正面，把云铺在上面。

¹⁰He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.

¹⁰在水面划出界限，直到光与暗的交界。

¹¹The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.

¹¹天的柱子都因他的斥责震动惊奇；

¹²He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.

¹²他以能力搅动大海，以聪明击伤拉哈伯。

¹³By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.

¹³他以自己的气使天晴朗，他的手刺穿逃跑的蛇。

¹⁴Behold, 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?”

¹⁴这些不过是他的作为的一点点，我们从他那里所听到的，是多么的微小！他大能的雷声谁能够明白呢？”