Job 38

²“Who is this who darkens counsel

³Brace yourself like a man,

⁴“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?

⁵Who determined its measures, if you know?

⁶What were its foundations fastened on?

⁷when the morning stars sang together,

⁸“Or who shut up the sea with doors,

⁹when I made clouds its garment,

¹⁰marked out for it my bound,

¹¹and said, ‘You may come here, but no further.

¹²“Have you commanded the morning in your days,

¹³that it might take hold of the ends of the earth,

¹⁴It is changed as clay under the seal,

¹⁵From the wicked, their light is withheld.

¹⁶“Have you entered into the springs of the sea?

¹⁷Have the gates of death been revealed to you?

¹⁸Have you comprehended the earth in its width?

¹⁹“What is the way to the dwelling of light?

²⁰that you should take it to its bound,

²¹Surely you know, for you were born then,

²²Have you entered the storehouses of the snow,

²³which I have reserved against the time of trouble,

²⁴By what way is the lightning distributed,

²⁵Who has cut a channel for the flood water,

²⁶to cause it to rain on a land where there is no man,

²⁷to satisfy the waste and desolate ground,

²⁸Does the rain have a father?

²⁹Whose womb did the ice come out of?

³⁰The waters become hard like stone,

³¹“Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades,

³²Can you lead the constellations out in their season?

³³Do you know the laws of the heavens?

³⁴“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,

³⁵Can you send out lightnings, that they may go?

³⁶Who has put wisdom in the inward parts?

³⁷Who can count the clouds by wisdom?

³⁸when the dust runs into a mass,

³⁹“Can you hunt the prey for the lioness,

⁴⁰when they crouch in their dens,

⁴¹Who provides for the raven his prey,