Job 38:1-9 ▼

1 Then the LORD answered Job from the whirlwind. He said:

2 Who is this who obscures my counsel with ignorant words?

3 Get ready to answer me like a man; when I question you, you will inform me.

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

5 Who fixed its dimensions? Certainly you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?

6 What supports its foundations? Or who laid its cornerstone

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

8 Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst from the womb,

9 when I made the clouds its garment and total darkness its blanket,