1. Then the Lord answered Job from the whirlwind:
2. Who is this darkening counselwith words lacking knowledge?
3. Prepare yourself like a man;I will interrogate you, and you will respond to me.
4. Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundations?Tell me if you know.
5. Who set its measurements? Surely you know.Who stretched a measuring tape on it?
6. On what were its footings sunk;who laid its cornerstone,
7. while the morning stars sang in unisonand all the divine beings shouted?
8. Who enclosed the Sea behind doorswhen it burst forth from the womb,
9. when I made the clouds its garment,the dense clouds its wrap,