Job 38:4 - 38:15

Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?

Tell Me, if you know understanding,

Who set its measurements? Since you know.

Or who stretched the line on it?

On what were its bases sunk?

Or who laid its cornerstone,

When the morning stars sang together

And all the sons of God shouted for joy?

“Or who enclosed the sea with doors

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

When I made a cloud its garment

And dense gloom its swaddling band,

And I placed boundaries on it

And set a bolt and doors,

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

And here shall your proud waves stop’?

“Have you ever in your life commanded the morning,

And caused the dawn to know its place,

That it might seize the ends of the earth,

And the wicked be shaken out of it?

It is changed like clay under the seal;

And they stand forth like clothing.

From the wicked their light is withheld,

And the arm raised high is broken.