God Speaks Now to Job

1 Then the Lord aanswered Job out of the whirlwind and said,

2 “Who is this that adarkens counsel

By words without knowledge?

3 “Now agird up your loins like a man,

And bI will ask you, and you instruct Me!

4 “Where were you awhen I laid the foundation of the earth?

Tell Me, if you 1have understanding,

5 Who set its ameasurements? Since you know.

Or who stretched the line on it?

6 “On what awere its bases sunk?

Or who laid its cornerstone,

7 When the morning stars sang together

And all the asons of God shouted for joy?

8 “Or who aenclosed the sea with doors

When, bursting forth, it went out from the womb;

9 When I made a cloud its garment

And thick darkness its swaddling band,

10 And I 1aplaced boundaries on it

And set a bolt and doors,

11 And I said, ‘Thus far you shall come, but no farther;

And here shall your proud waves stop’?