Job 38:1-9 ▼

1 And YHWH answers Job out of the whirlwind and says:

2 “Who [is] this—darkening counsel, || By words without knowledge?

3 Now gird your loins as a man, || And I ask you, and you cause Me to know.

4 Where were you when I founded the earth? Declare, if you have known understanding.

5 Who placed its measures—if you know? Or who has stretched out a line on it?

6 On what have its sockets been sunk? Or who has cast its cornerstone—

7 In the singing together of [the] stars of morning, || When all [the] sons of God shout for joy?

8 And He shuts up the sea with doors, || In its coming forth, it goes out from the womb.

9 In My making a cloud its clothing, || And thick darkness its swaddling band,