Job 38:4–15

Yahweh Interrogates Job

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.