5. Who hath laid the measures of it, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
6. Upon what are the foundations of it fastened? or who laid its corner stone;
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 broke forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
9. When I made a cloud its garment, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it,
10. And broke up for it my decreed place, 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; and caused the day-spring to know its place;
13. That it might take hold of the ends of earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
14. It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.
15. And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the high arm shall be broken.
16. Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?
17. Have the gates of death been opened to thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shades of death?
18. Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.
19. Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is its place,
20. That thou shouldest take it to its bound, and that thou shouldest know the paths to its house?
21. Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great?
22. Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,
23. Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?