1. Then Hashem answered Iyov out of the whirlwind, and said,
2. Who is this that darkeneth etzah (counsel) with words without da'as?
3. Gird up now thy loins like a gever; for I will ask of thee, and thou wilt answer Me.
4. Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of eretz? Tell, if thou hast binah.
5. Who hath drafted the dimensions thereof, if thou hast da'as? Or who hath stretched a measuring line across it?
6. Whereupon are the foundations thereof set? Or who laid the even-pinnah (cornerstone) thereof
7. When the kokhvei boker sang together, and all the Bnei Elohim shouted for joy?
8. Or who shut up the yam behind doors? Who brought it forth, issuing out of the rekhem (womb)
9. When I made the anan the garment thereof, and thick darkness its swaddling band,
10. And fixed bounds for it, and set bars and dlatot (doors),
11. And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and poh (here) shall thy proud waves be stopped?
12. Hast thou commanded the boker since thy yamim began; or caused the shachar (dawn) to know its place;
13. That it might seize the ends of ha'aretz, that the resha'im be shaken out of it?
14. It is changed like chomer (clay) under the khotam (seal); and they stand out like a garment.
15. And from the resha'im their ohr is denied, and the upraised zero'a shall be broken.
16. Hast thou entered into the springs of the yam? Or hast thou walked in the recesses of the tehom?
17. Have the sha'arei mavet been disclosed unto thee? Or hast thou seen the sha'arei tzalmavet?
18. Hast thou perceived the expanse of eretz? Tell Me if thou hast da'as of it all.
19. Where is the derech where ohr dwelleth? And as for choshech, where is the place thereof,