1. But the Lord, responding to Job from a whirlwind, said:
2. Who is this that wraps sentences in unskilled words?
3. Gird your waist like a man. I will question you, and you must answer me.
4. Where were you, when I set the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.
5. Who set its measurements, if you know, or who stretched a line over it?
6. Upon what have its bases been grounded, and who set forth its cornerstone,
7. when the morning stars praised me together, and all the sons of God made a joyful noise?
8. Who enclosed the sea with doors, when it broke forth as if issuing from the womb,
9. when I stationed a cloud as its garment and wrapped it in a mist as if swaddling an infant?
10. I encircled it with my limits, and I positioned its bars and doors.
11. And I said: "This far you will approach, and you will proceeded no further, and here you will break your swelling waves."