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.
16. Hast thou entered as far as the springs of the sea? and hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?
17. Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? and hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?
18. Hath thine understanding compassed the breadths of the earth? Declare if thou knowest it all.
19. Where is the way to where light dwelleth? and the darkness, where is its place,
20. That thou shouldest take it to its bound, and that thou shouldest know the paths to its house?
21. Thou knowest, for thou wast then born, and the number of thy days is great!
22. Hast thou entered into the storehouses of the snow, and hast thou seen the treasuries of the hail,
23. Which I have reserved for the time of distress, for the day of battle and war?