Job 38

¹Then the Lord answered Job out of a whirlwind, and said:

²Who is this that wrappeth up sentences in unskillful words?

³Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and answer thou me.

⁴Where wast thou when I laid up the foundations of the earth? tell me if thou hast understanding.

⁵Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?

⁶Upon what are its bases grounded? or who laid the corner stone thereof,

⁷When the morning stars praised me together, and all the sons of God made a joyful melody?

⁸Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb:

⁹When I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in a mist as in swaddling bands?

¹⁰I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors:

¹¹And I said: Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and here thou shalt break thy swelling waves.

¹²Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place?

¹³And didst thou hold the extremities of the earth shaking them, and hast thou shaken the ungodly out of it?

¹⁴The seal shall be restored as clay, and shall stand as a garment:

¹⁵From the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the high arm shall be broken.