Job 38:1-11

1Then Adonai answered Job out of the whirlwind. He said:

2“Who is this, who darkens counsel with words without knowledge?

3Now gird up your loins like a man; I will question you, and you will inform Me!

4“Where were you when I laid the foundations of earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.

5Who set its dimensions —if you know— or who stretched a line over it?

6On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone—

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

8“And who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

9when I made a cloud its garment and thick darkness its swaddling cloth,

10when I prescribed my boundary for it, and set bars and gates,

11when I said, ‘This far you may come, but no further; here your majestic waves will stop.’