Job 38:1-13 ▼

1 Then aunswered the Lorde vnto Iob out of the whirle winde, and saide:

2 What is he that darkeneth his counsaile by wordes without knowledge?

3 Girde vp thy loynes lyke a man: for I wyl question with thee, see thou geue me a direct aunswere.

4 Where wast thou when I layed the foundations of the earth? Tell playnely, if thou hast vnderstanding.

5 Who hath measured it, knowest thou? or who hath spread the lyne vpon it?

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

7 Where wast thou when the morning starres praysed me together, and all the children of God reioyced triumphantly?

8 Who shut the sea with doores, when it brake foorth as out of the wombe?

9 When I made the cloudes to be a covering for it, and swadled it with the darke:

10 When I gaue it my commaundement, making doores and barres for it,

11 Saying, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shalt thou laye downe thy proude and hie waues.

12 Hast thou geue the morning his charge since thy dayes, and shewed the day spring his place,

13 That it might take holde of the corners of the earth, and that the vngodly might be shaken out of it.