1. And Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind and said,
2. Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
3. Gird up now thy loins like a man; and I will demand of thee, and inform thou me.
4. Where wast thou when I founded the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding.
5. Who set the measures thereof--if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it?
6. Whereupon were the foundations thereof sunken? or who laid its corner-stone,
7. When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8. And who shut up the sea with doors, when it burst forth, issuing out of the womb?
9. When I made the cloud its garment, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it;
10. When I cut out for it my boundary, and set bars and doors,
11. And said, Hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
12. Hast thou since thy days commanded the morning? hast thou caused the dawn to know its place,
13. That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and the wicked might be shaken out of it?
14. It is changed like the signet-clay; and all things stand forth as in a garment:
15. And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the uplifted arm is broken.