Job 38:1-13 ▼

1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm and said:

2 Who is this who darkens counsel with words of ignorance?

3 Gird up your loins now, like a man; I will question you, and you tell me the answers!

4 Where were you when I founded the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.

5 Who determined its size? Surely you know? Who stretched out the measuring line for it?

6 Into what were its pedestals sunk, and who laid its cornerstone,

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

8 Who shut within doors the sea, when it burst forth from the womb,

9 When I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling bands?

10 When I set limits for it and fastened the bar of its door,

11 And said: Thus far shall you come but no farther, and here shall your proud waves stop?

12 Have you ever in your lifetime commanded the morning and shown the dawn its place

13 For taking hold of the ends of the earth, till the wicked are shaken from it?