Job 38

¹And Jehovah answereth Job out of the whirlwind, and saith: —

²Who [is] this — darkening counsel, By words without knowledge?

³Gird, I pray thee, as a man, thy loins, And I ask thee, and cause thou Me to know.

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

⁵Who placed its measures — if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched out upon it a line?

⁶On what have its sockets been sunk? Or who hath cast its corner-stone?

⁷In the singing together of stars of morning, And all sons of God shout for joy,

⁸And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out.

⁹In My making a cloud its clothing, And thick darkness its swaddling band,

¹⁰And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors,

¹¹And say, 'Hitherto come thou, and add not, And a command is placed On the pride of thy billows.'

¹²Hast thou commanded morning since thy days? Causest thou the dawn to know its place?

¹³To take hold on the skirts of the earth, And the wicked are shaken out of it,

¹⁴It turneth itself as clay of a seal And they station themselves as clothed.

¹⁵And withheld from the wicked is their light, And the arm lifted up is broken.