Job 38:4-18

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”?

12Have you ever in your life commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,

13so it may seize the edges of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?

14The earth is changed as clay is by a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.

15Light is withheld from the wicked, and the arm raised in violence is broken.

16Have you traveled to the sources of the sea or walked in the depths of the oceans?

17Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of deep darkness?

18Have you comprehended the extent of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this.