Job 38:1-9 ▼

1 The LORD responded to Job from the whirlwind and said:

2 |Who is this who keeps darkening my counsel without knowing what he's talking about?

3 Stand up like a man! I'll ask you some questions, and you give me some answers!|

4 |Where were you when I laid the foundation of my earth? Tell me, since you're so informed!

5 Who set its measurement? Am I to assume you know? Who stretched a boundary line over it?

6 On what were its bases set? Who laid its corner stone

7 while the morning stars sang together and all the divine beings shouted joyfully?

8 |Who enclosed the sea with limits when it gushed out of the womb,

9 when I made clouds to be its clothes and thick darkness its swaddling blanket,