1. Then the Lord answered Job out of the storm.
2. “Who is this that belittles my advicewith words that do not show any knowledge ⌊about it⌋?
3. Brace yourself like a man!I will ask you, and you will teach me.
4. “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?Tell me if you have ⌊such⌋ insight.
5. Who determined its dimensions?Certainly, you know!Who stretched a measuring line over it?
6. On what were its footings sunk?Who laid its cornerstone
7. when the morning stars sang togetherand all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8. “Who shut the sea behind gateswhen it burst through and came out of the womb,
9. when I clothed it with cloudsand wrapped it up in dark clouds,
10. when I set a limit for itand put up bars and gates,
11. when I said, ‘You may come this far but no farther.Here your proud waves will stop’?
12. “Have you ever given orders to the morningor assigned a place for the dawn
13. so that it could grab the earth by its edgesand shake wicked people out of it?
14. The earth changes like clay stamped by a seal,and ⌊parts of it⌋ stand out like ⌊folds in⌋ clothing.
15. Wicked people are deprived of their light,and an arm raised ⌊in victory⌋ is broken.
16. Have you gone to the springs in the seaor walked through the valleys of the ocean depths?
17. Have the gateways to death been revealed to you,or have you seen the gateways to total darkness?
18. Have you ⌊even⌋ considered how wide the earth is?Tell me, if you know all of this!
19. “What is the way to the place where light lives?Where is the home of darkness