Job 38

¹And the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said,

²Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?

³Get your strength together like a man of war; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

⁴Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.

⁵By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?

⁶On what were its pillars based, or who put down its angle-stone,

⁷When the morning stars made songs together, and all the sons of the gods gave cries of joy?

⁸Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;

⁹When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it,

¹⁰Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;

¹¹And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?

¹²Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;

¹³So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?

¹⁴It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe;

¹⁵And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken.