1. Then the Lord answered Job out of the storm and said:
2. Who is this who darkens counselwith words of ignorance?
3. Gird up your loins now, like a man;I will question you, and you tell me the answers!
4. Where were you when I founded the earth?Tell me, if you have understanding.
5. Who determined its size? Surely you know?Who stretched out the measuring line for it?
6. Into what were its pedestals sunk,and who laid its cornerstone,
7. While the morning stars sang togetherand all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8. Who shut within doors the sea,when it burst forth from the womb,
9. When I made the clouds its garmentand thick darkness its swaddling bands?
10. When I set limits for itand fastened the bar of its door,
11. And said: Thus far shall you come but no farther,and here shall your proud waves stop?
12. Have you ever in your lifetime commanded the morningand shown the dawn its place