1. Then the Lord answered Job from the whirlwind. He said:
2. Who is this who obscures My counselwith ignorant words?
3. Get ready to answer Me like a man;when I question you, you will inform Me.
4. Where were you when I established the earth?Tell Me, if you have understanding.
5. Who fixed its dimensions? Certainly you know!Who stretched a measuring line across it?
6. What supports its foundations?Or who laid its cornerstone
7. while the morning stars sang togetherand all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8. Who enclosed the sea behind doorswhen it burst from the womb,
9. when I made the clouds its garmentand thick darkness its blanket,
10. when I determined its boundaries and put its bars and doors in place,
11. when I declared: “You may come this far, but no farther;your proud waves stop here”?
12. Have you ever in your life commanded the morningor assigned the dawn its place,
13. so it may seize the edges of the earthand shake the wicked out of it?
14. The earth is changed as clay is by a seal;its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.