Catholic Public Domain Version

Job 38:5-24 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

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.

19. Which is the way that holds the light, and which is the place of darkness?

20. In this way, you might lead each thing to its final place, and understand the paths of its house.

21. So then, did you know when you were to be born? And did you know the number of your days?

22. Have you been admitted into the storehouses of the snows, and have you gazed upon the stockpile of the brimstone,

23. which I have prepared for the time of the enemy, for the day of the battle and the war?

24. In what way is the light scattered, and the heat distributed, over the earth?