1. Then Adonai answered Job out of the whirlwind. He said:
2. “Who is this, who darkens counsel with words without knowledge?
3. Now gird up your loins like a man; I will question you, and you will inform Me!
4. “Where were you when I laid the foundations of earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.
5. Who set its dimensions —if you know— or who stretched a line over it?
6. On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone—
7. when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8. “And who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
9. when I made a cloud its garment and thick darkness its swaddling cloth,
10. when I prescribed my boundary for it, and set bars and gates,
11. when I said, ‘This far you may come, but no further; here your majestic waves will stop.’
12. “Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, or caused dawn to know its place;
13. that it would take hold of the corners of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?
14. It changes shape like clay under a seal— they stand out like those of a garment.