Job 38:1-13 ▼

1 And Jehovah will answer Job from the whirlwind, and he will say,

2 Who this darkening counsel in words without knowledge?

3 Gird now thy loins as a man; and I will ask thee, and make thou known to me.

4 Where wert thou in my founding the earth? Announce, if thou knewest understanding.

5 Who set its measures, if thou shalt know? or who stretched the line upon it?

6 Upon what were its bases impressed? or who placed its corner-stone?

7 In the rejoicing together of the stars of morning, and all the sons of God will shout for joy?

8 And he will hedge in the sea with doors in its breaking forth, going forth from the womb.

9 In my making the cloud its garment, and darkness its bandage:

10 And I shall break upon it my law, and I shall set bars and doors;

11 And saying, Even to this shalt thou come, and thou shalt not add: and here in the pride of thy waves, stand thou.

12 In thy days didst thou command the morning? and didst thou make the dawning know its place?

13 To take hold upon the wings of the earth, and the unjust shall be shaken out of it?