Job 38:1-13 ▼

1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said,

2 “Who is this that darkens counsel By words without knowledge?

3 “Now gird up your loins like a man, And I will ask you, and you instruct Me!

4 “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding,

5 Who set its measurements, since you know? Or who stretched the line on it?

6 “On what were its bases sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone,

7 When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy?

8 “Or who enclosed the sea with doors, When, bursting forth, it went out from the womb;

9 When I made a cloud its garment, And thick darkness its swaddling band,

10 And I placed boundaries on it, And I set a bolt and doors,

11 And I said, ‘Thus far you shall come, but no farther; And here shall your proud waves stop’?

12 “Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, And caused the dawn to know its place;

13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, And the wicked be shaken out of it?