Job 38

¹Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:

²“Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?

³Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.

⁴Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.

⁵Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?

⁶On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone,

⁷while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

⁸Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

⁹when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,

¹⁰when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,

¹¹and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?

¹²In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,

¹³that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?

¹⁴The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.

¹⁵Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.

Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?