Job 38:1-13 ▼

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

2 Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.

4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

5 Who hath laid the measures of it, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?

6 Upon what are the foundations of it fastened? or who laid its corner stone;

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

8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

9 When I made a cloud its garment, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it,

10 And broke up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,

11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.

12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the day-spring to know its place;

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