Job 38:1–24
38 Thena Yahweh answered Job from the storm, and he said,
2 “Who is this darkening counsel
by words without knowledge?
3 ⌊Prepare yourself for a difficult task like a man⌋,b
and I will question you, and you shall declare to me.
4 “Where were you at my laying the foundation of the earth?
Tell me, if you possess understanding.
5 Who determined its measurement? Yes, you do know.
Or who stretched the measuring line upon it?
6 On what were its bases sunk?
Or who laid its cornerstone,
7 when the morning stars were singing together
and all the sons of Godc shouted for joy?
8 “Or who shut the sea in with doors
at its bursting, when it went out of the womb,
9 at my making the clouds its garment
and thick darkness its swaddling band,
10 and I prescribed my rule for it,
and I set bars and doors,
11 and I said, ‘You shall come up to here, butd you shall not go further,
and here it will set a boundary ⌊for your proud surging waves⌋’?e
12 “Have you ⌊ever in your life⌋f commanded the morning?
Have you made the dawn know its place,
13 to take hold of the earth’s skirts
so thatg the wicked might be shaken off from it?
14 It is changed like clay under a seal,
and they appear like a garment.
15 And their light is withheld from the wicked,
and their uplifted arm is broken.
16 “Have you entered into the sea’s sources?
Or have you walked around in the recesses of the deep?
17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you?
Or have you seen the gates of deep shadow?
18 Have you considered closely the earth’s vast expanse?
Declare it, if you know all of it.
19 “Where thenh is the way where the light dwells?
And where theni is its place,
20 that you may take it to its territory,
and that you might discern the paths to its home?
21 You know, for you were born then,
and the number of your days is great.
22 Have you entered into the storehouses of the snow,
orj have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
23 which I have reserved for the time of trouble,
for the day of battle and war?
24 Where thenk is the way where the light is distributed,
where he scatters the east wind upon the earth?