1. Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
2. Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
3. Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
4. Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
5. Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who stretched the line upon it?
6. Whereupon were the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
7. When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8. Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb;
9. When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
10. And prescribed for it my decree, and set bars and doors,
11. And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
12. Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days began, and caused the dayspring to know its place;
13. That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?
14. It is changed as clay under the seal; and all things stand forth as a garment: