Job 38:1-13 ▼

1 The LORD responded to Job from the whirlwind and said:

2 |Who is this who keeps darkening my counsel without knowing what he's talking about?

3 Stand up like a man! I'll ask you some questions, and you give me some answers!|

4 |Where were you when I laid the foundation of my earth? Tell me, since you're so informed!

5 Who set its measurement? Am I to assume you know? Who stretched a boundary line over it?

6 On what were its bases set? Who laid its corner stone

7 while the morning stars sang together and all the divine beings shouted joyfully?

8 |Who enclosed the sea with limits when it gushed out of the womb,

9 when I made clouds to be its clothes and thick darkness its swaddling blanket,

10 when I proscribed a boundary for it, set in place bars and doors for it;

11 and said, 'You may come only this far and no more. Your majestic waves will stop here.'?

12 |Have you ever commanded the morning at any time during your life? Do you know where the dawn lives,

13 where it seizes the edge of the earth and shakes the wicked out of it?