4. “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?Declare, if you have understanding.
5. Who has determined its measurements, if you know?Or who has stretched the line upon it?
6. To what are its foundations fastened?Or who laid its cornerstone
7. when the morning stars sang together,and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8. “Or who shut up the sea with doorswhen it broke forth and went out of the womb?
9. When I made the cloud its garment,and thick darkness its swaddling band,
10. and broke up for it My decreed place,and set bars and doors,
11. and said, ‘This far you will come but no farther,and here your proud waves will be stopped’?
12. “Have you commanded the morning in your days,and caused the dawn to know its place,
13. that it might take hold of the ends of the earth,that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
14. It is turned like clay by the seal,and it stands out as a garment.
15. From the wicked their light is withheld,and the high arm will be broken.
16. “Have you entered into the springs of the sea?Or have you walked in search of the depths?
17. Have the gates of death been opened to you?Or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?