Job 38

¹And Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind and said,

²Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

³Gird up now thy loins like a man; and I will demand of thee, and inform thou me.

⁴Where wast thou when I founded the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding.

⁵Who set the measures thereof — if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it?

⁶Whereupon were the foundations thereof sunken? or who laid its corner-stone,

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

⁸And who shut up the sea with doors, when it burst forth, issuing out of the womb?

⁹When I made the cloud its garment, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it;

¹⁰When I cut out for it my boundary, and set bars and doors,

¹¹And said, Hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

¹²Hast thou since thy days commanded the morning? hast thou caused the dawn to know its place,

¹³That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and the wicked might be shaken out of it?

¹⁴It is changed like the signet-clay; and [all things] stand forth as in a garment:

¹⁵And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the uplifted arm is broken.