Then Yahweh called to Job out of a fierce storm and said, "Who is this who brings darkness to plans by means of words without knowledge? Now gird up your loins like a man for I will ask you questions, and you must answer me. Where were you when I laid the earth's foundations? Tell me, if you have so much understanding. Who determined its dimensions? Tell me, if you know. Who stretched the measuring line over it? On what were its foundations laid? Who laid its cornerstone when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy? Who shut up the sea with doors when it burst out, as if it had come out of the womb—when I made clouds its clothing, and thick darkness its swaddling bands? That was when I marked out for the sea my boundary, and when I placed its bars and doors, and when I said to it, 'You may come this far, but no farther; here is where I will put a boundary to the pride of your waves.' Have you given orders to the morning, or caused the dawn to know its place, so that it might take hold of the edges of the earth and shake the wicked out of it? The earth is changed in appearance like clay changes under a seal; all things on it stand out clearly like the folds of a piece of clothing. From wicked people their light is taken away; their uplifted arm is broken. Have you gone to the springs of the sea? Have you walked in the lowest parts of the deep? Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death? Have you understood the earth in its expanse? Tell me, if you know it all.
