Job 38:1-13 ▼

1 Then the LORD answered Job from the whirlwind. He said:

2 Who is this who obscures My counsel with ignorant words?

3 Get ready to answer Me like a man; when I question you, you will inform Me.

4 Where were you when I established the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.

5 Who fixed its dimensions? Certainly you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?

6 What supports its foundations? Or who laid its cornerstone

7 while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

8 Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst from the womb,

9 when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,

10 when I determined its boundaries and put its bars and doors in place,

11 when I declared: “You may come this far, but no farther; your proud waves stop here|?

12 Have you ever in your life commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,

13 so it may seize the edges of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?