Job 38:1-13 ▼

1 And YHWH answers Job out of the whirlwind and says:

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

3 Now gird your loins as a man, || And I ask you, and you cause Me to know.

4 Where were you when I founded the earth? Declare, if you have known understanding.

5 Who placed its measures—if you know? Or who has stretched out a line on it?

6 On what have its sockets been sunk? Or who has cast its cornerstone—

7 In the singing together of [the] stars of morning, || When all [the] sons of God shout for joy?

8 And He shuts up the sea with doors, || In its coming forth, it goes out from the womb.

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

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

11 And say, To here you come, and no more, || And a command is placed || On the pride of your billows.

12 Have you commanded morning since your days? Do you cause the dawn to know its place?

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