Job 38:1-13 ▼

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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