38:1 Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind:
38:2 “Who is this who darkens counsel with words without knowledge?
38:3 Get ready for a difficult task like a man; I will question you and you will inform me!
38:4 “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you possess understanding!
38:5 Who set its measurements — if you know — or who stretched a measuring line across it?
38:6 On what were its bases set, or who laid its cornerstone —
38:7 when the morning stars sang in chorus, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
38:8 “Who shut up the sea with doors when it burst forth, coming out of the womb,
38:9 when I made the storm clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band,
38:10 when I prescribed its limits, and set in place its bars and doors,
38:11 when I said, ‘To here you may come and no farther, here your proud waves will be confined’?
38:12 Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, or made the dawn know its place,
38:13 that it might seize the corners of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?