Job 38:4-27

4“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me if you have ⌞such⌟ insight.

5Who determined its dimensions? Certainly, you know! Who stretched a measuring line over it?

6On what were its footings sunk? Who laid its cornerstone

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

8“Who shut the sea behind gates when it burst through and came out of the womb,

9when I clothed it with clouds and wrapped it up in dark clouds,

10when I set a limit for it and put up bars and gates,

11when I said, ‘You may come this far but no farther. Here your proud waves will stop’?

12“Have you ever given orders to the morning or assigned a place for the dawn

13so that it could grab the earth by its edges and shake wicked people out of it?

14The earth changes like clay stamped by a seal, and ⌞parts of it⌟ stand out like ⌞folds in⌟ clothing.

15Wicked people are deprived of their light, and an arm raised ⌞in victory⌟ is broken.

16Have you gone to the springs in the sea or walked through the valleys of the ocean depths?

17Have the gateways to death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gateways to total darkness?

18Have you ⌞even⌟ considered how wide the earth is? Tell me, if you know all of this!

19“What is the way to the place where light lives? Where is the home of darkness

20so that you may lead it to its territory, so that you may know the path to its home?

21You must know because you were born then and have lived such a long time!

22Have you been to the warehouses where snow is stored or seen the warehouses for hail

23that I have stored up for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war?

24Which is the way to the place where light is scattered and the east wind is spread across the earth?

25“Who made a channel for the flooding rains and a path for the thunderstorms

26to bring rain on a land where no one lives, on a desert where there are no humans,

27to saturate the desolate wasteland in order to make it sprout with grass?