Job 38:4-27

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.’

12“Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, or caused dawn to know its place;

13that it would take hold of the corners of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?

14It changes shape like clay under a seal— they stand out like those of a garment.

15And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the upraised arm is broken.

16“Have you gone to the springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep?

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

18Have you comprehended the expanses of the earth? If you know it all, declare it!

19In what direction does light dwell, and darkness, where is its place—

20that you can take it to its borders, and discern the paths to its home?

21Surely you know, for you were born then; and the number of your days is great!

22“Have you entered the storehouses of snow or seen the storehouses of hail,

23which I reserved for a time of distress, for a day of battle and war?

24In what direction is light distributed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?

25Who cuts a channel for the flood, and a path for the thunderstorm,

26to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a desert with no one in it,

27to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and cause it to sprout grass?