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.
15. Light is withheld from the wicked,and the arm raised in violence is broken.
16. Have you traveled to the sources of the seaor walked in the depths of the oceans?
17. Have the gates of death been revealed to you?Have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
18. Have you comprehended the extent of the earth?Tell Me, if you know all this.
19. Where is the road to the home of light?Do you know where darkness lives,
20. so you can lead it back to its border?Are you familiar with the paths to its home?
21. Don’t you know? You were already born; you have lived so long!
22. Have you entered the place where the snow is stored?Or have you seen the storehouses of hail,
23. which I hold in reserve for times of trouble,for the day of warfare and battle?
24. What road leads to the place where light is dispersed? Where is the source of the east wind that spreads across the earth?
25. Who cuts a channel for the flooding rainor clears the way for lightning,