Job 38

¹Then answered the Lord vnto Iob out of the whirle winde, and said,

²Who is this that darkeneth the counsell by wordes without knowledge?

³Girde vp nowe thy loynes like a man: I will demande of thee and declare thou vnto me.

⁴Where wast thou when I layd the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast vnderstanding,

⁵Who hath layde the measures thereof, if thou knowest, or who hath stretched the line ouer it:

⁶Whereupon are the foundations thereof set: or who layed the corner stone thereof:

⁷When the starres of the morning praysed me together, and all the children of God reioyced:

⁸Or who hath shut vp the Sea with doores, when it yssued and came foorth as out of the wombe:

⁹When I made the cloudes as a couering thereof, and darkenesse as the swadeling bands thereof:

¹⁰When I stablished my commandement vpon it, and set barres and doores,

¹¹And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall it stay thy proude waues.

¹²Hast thou commanded the morning since thy dayes? hast thou caused the morning to knowe his place,

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

¹⁴It is turned as clay to facion, and all stand vp as a garment.

¹⁵And from the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the hie arme shalbe broken.