Job 38:1-9 ▼

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

2 “Who is this that darkens counsel By words without knowledge?

3 Now gird up your loins like a man, And I will ask you, and you make Me know!

4 Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell Me, if you know understanding,

5 Who set its measurements? Since you know. Or who stretched the line on it?

6 On what were its bases sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone,

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

8 “Or who enclosed the sea with doors When, bursting forth, it went out from the womb,

9 When I made a cloud its garment And dense gloom its swaddling band,