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,
10. when I imposed my limit for it,put on a bar and doors
11. and said, "You may come this far, no farther;here your proud waves stop"?
12. In your lifetime have you commanded the morning,informed the dawn of its place
13. so it would take hold of earth by its edgesand shake the wicked out of it?
14. Do you turn it over like clay for a seal,so it stands out like a colorful garment?
15. Light is withheld from the wicked,the uplifted arm broken.
16. Have you gone to the sea’s sources,walked in the chamber of the deep?
17. Have death’s gates been revealed to you;can you see the gates of deep darkness?
18. Have you surveyed earth’s expanses?Tell me if you know everything about it.
19. Where’s the road to the place where light dwells;darkness, where’s it located?
20. Can you take it to its territory;do you know the paths to its house?
21. You know, for you were born then;you have lived such a long time!
22. Have you gone to snow’s storehouses,seen the storehouses of hail
23. that I have reserved for a time of distress,for a day of battle and war?
24. What is the way to the place where light is divided up;the east wind scattered over earth?
25. Who cut a channel for the downpoursand a way for blasts of thunder
26. to bring water to uninhabited land,a desert with no human
27. to saturate dry wastelandand make grass sprout?