Job 38:1-13 ▼

1 And after Elius had ceased from speaking, the Lord spoke to Job through the whirlwind and clouds, saying ,

2 Who is this that hides counsel from me, and confines words in his heart, and thinks to conceal them from me?

3 Gird thy loins like a man; and I will ask thee, and do thou answer me.

4 Where wast thou when I founded the earth? tell me now, if thou hast knowledge,

5 who set the measures of it, if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it?

6 On what are its rings fastened? and who is he that laid the corner-stone upon it?

7 When the stars were made, all my angels praised me with a loud voice.

8 And I shut up the sea with gates, when it rushed out, coming forth out its mother's womb.

9 And I made a cloud its clothing, and swathed it in mist.

10 And I set bounds to it, surrounding it with bars and gates.

11 And I said to it, Hitherto shalt thou come, but thou shalt not go beyond, but thy waves shall be confined within thee.

12 Or did I order the morning light in thy time; and did the morning star then first see his appointed place;

13 to lay hold of the extremities of the earth, to cast out the ungodly out of it?