New International Version

Job 38:6-15 New International Version (NIV)

6. On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone—

7. while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?

8. “Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

9. when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness,

10. when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place,

11. when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt’?

12. “Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place,

13. that it might take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it?

14. The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features stand out like those of a garment.

15. The wicked are denied their light, and their upraised arm is broken.