[1] Job's Reply to Bildad Job said: [2] You have really been helpful to someone weak and weary. [3] You have given great advice and wonderful wisdom to someone truly in need. [4] How can anyone possibly speak with such understanding? [5] Remember the terrible trembling of those in the world of the dead below the mighty ocean. [6] Nothing in that land of death and destruction is hidden from God, [7] who hung the northern sky and suspended the earth on empty space. [8] God stores water in clouds, but they don't burst, [9] and he wraps them around the face of the moon. [10] On the surface of the ocean, God has drawn a boundary line between light and darkness. [11] And columns supporting the sky tremble at his command. [12] By his power and wisdom, God conquered the force of the mighty ocean. [13] The heavens became bright when he breathed, and the escaping sea monster died at the hands of God. [14] These things are merely a whisper of God's power at work. How little we would understand if this whisper ever turned into thunder!
