THE LORD SPEAKS

38 Then the Lord answered Job from the whirlwind.n He said:

2 Who is this who obscures my counsel

with ignorant words?o

3 Get ready to answer me like a man;

when I questionp you, you will inform me.

4 Where were you when I establishedq the earth?

Tell me, if you haveA understanding.

5 Who fixed its dimensions? Certainly you know!

Who stretched a measuring line across it?

6 What supports its foundations?

Or who laid its cornerstone

7 while the morning stars sang together

and all the sons of Goda shouted for joy?

8 Who enclosed the sea behind doors

when it burst from the womb,

9 when I made the clouds its garment

and total darkness its blanket,B,b

10 when I determined its boundariesC

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”?