Job 38:1-11

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

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

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

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

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

6What supports its foundations? Or who laid its cornerstone

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

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

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

10when I determined its boundaries and put its bars and doors in place,

11when I declared, “You may come this far, but no farther; your proud waves stop here”?