2. Who is this that wraps sentences in unskilled words?
3. Gird your waist like a man. I will question you, and you must answer me.
4. Where were you, when I set the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.
5. Who set its measurements, if you know, or who stretched a line over it?
6. Upon what have its bases been grounded, and who set forth its cornerstone,
7. when the morning stars praised me together, and all the sons of God made a joyful noise?
8. Who enclosed the sea with doors, when it broke forth as if issuing from the womb,
9. when I stationed a cloud as its garment and wrapped it in a mist as if swaddling an infant?
10. I encircled it with my limits, and I positioned its bars and doors.
11. And I said: "This far you will approach, and you will proceeded no further, and here you will break your swelling waves."
12. Did you, after your birth, command the birth of the sun and show the sunrise its place?
13. And did you hold the extremities of the earth, shaking them, and have you shaken the impious out of it?
14. The seal will be restored like clay, and it will remain in place like a garment.
15. From the impious, the light will be taken away, and the exalted arm will be broken.
16. Have you entered the depths of the sea, and have you taken a walk in the uttermost parts of the abyss?
17. Have the gates of death been opened to you, and have you seen the doors of darkness?
18. Have you considered the breadth of the earth? If you know all things, reveal them to me.