7. while the morning stars sang togetherand all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8. Who enclosed the sea behind doorswhen it burst from the womb,
9. when I made the clouds its garmentand thick darkness its blanket,
10. when I determined its boundaries and put its bars and doors in place,
11. when I declared: “You may come this far, but no farther;your proud waves stop here”?
12. Have you ever in your life commanded the morningor assigned the dawn its place,
13. so it may seize the edges of the earthand shake the wicked out of it?
14. The earth is changed as clay is by a seal;its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.
15. Light is withheld from the wicked,and the arm raised in violence is broken.
16. Have you traveled to the sources of the seaor walked in the depths of the oceans?
17. Have the gates of death been revealed to you?Have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
18. Have you comprehended the extent of the earth?Tell Me, if you know all this.
19. Where is the road to the home of light?Do you know where darkness lives,
20. so you can lead it back to its border?Are you familiar with the paths to its home?
21. Don’t you know? You were already born; you have lived so long!