Job 38:4-27

4Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.1 5Who hath laid the measures of it, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? 6Upon what are the foundations of it fastened? or who laid its corner stone;23 7When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? 8Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? 9When I made a cloud its garment, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, 10And broke up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,4 11And said, Thus far shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?5

12Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know its place; 13That it might take hold of the ends of earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?6 14It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment. 15And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the high arm shall be broken. 16Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth? 17Have the gates of death been revealed to thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death? 18Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all. 19Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is its place, 20That thou shouldest take it to its bound, and that thou shouldest know the paths to its house?7 21Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great? 22Hast thou entered into the treasuries of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasuries of the hail, 23Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war? 24By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?

25Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder; 26To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, in which there is no man; 27To satisfy the desolate and waste ground ; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?