Job: Who Can Understand God’s Majesty?

Job replies with sarcasm, asking how much help such counsel has really given to the powerless, the weak, and the unwise. He presses the point by asking who these words were actually meant for and whose spirit was speaking through them, exposing the emptiness of Bildad's compressed theology.

T¹hen Job answered: ²“How you have helped the powerless ³How you have counseled the unwise ⁴To whom have you uttered these words?

Job then sketches God's dominion from the depths upward: the dead tremble below, Sheol lies open, the north hangs over emptiness, and the earth is suspended over nothing. God binds up waters in clouds, veils the moon, inscribes the horizon between light and darkness, and makes the pillars of heaven quake at his rebuke.

⁵The dead tremble — ⁶Sheol is naked before God, ⁷He stretches out the north over empty space; ⁸He wraps up the waters in His clouds, ⁹He covers the face of the full moon, ¹⁰He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters ¹¹The foundations of heaven quake,

By his power God stills the sea and by his understanding shatters the proud monster; by his breath the skies are made fair and the fleeing serpent is pierced. Yet Job says even these mighty acts are only the outskirts of God's ways, mere whispers before the thunder of a power no one can fully understand.

¹²By His power He stirred the sea; ¹³By His breath the skies were cleared; ¹⁴Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways;