Job 38:1-11

1And Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind and said,

2Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

3Gird up now thy loins like a man; and I will demand of thee, and inform thou me.

4Where wast thou when I founded the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding.

5Who set the measures thereof — if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it?

6Whereupon were the foundations thereof sunken? or who laid its corner-stone,

7When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of 1God shouted for joy?

8And who shut up the sea with doors, when it burst forth, issuing out of the womb?

9When I made the cloud its garment, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it;

10When I cut out for it my boundary, and set bars and doors,

11And said, Hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?