11. when I said, ‘This far you may come, but no further; here your majestic waves will stop.’
12. “Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, or caused dawn to know its place;
13. that it would take hold of the corners of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?
14. It changes shape like clay under a seal— they stand out like those of a garment.
15. And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the upraised arm is broken.
16. “Have you gone to the springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep?
17. Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness?
18. Have you comprehended the expanses of the earth? If you know it all, declare it!
19. In what direction does light dwell, and darkness, where is its place—
20. that you can take it to its borders, and discern the paths to its home?
21. Surely you know, for you were born then; and the number of your days is great!
22. “Have you entered the storehouses of snow or seen the storehouses of hail,
23. which I reserved for a time of distress, for a day of battle and war?
24. In what direction is light distributed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?
25. Who cuts a channel for the flood, and a path for the thunderstorm,
26. to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a desert with no one in it,
27. to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and cause it to sprout grass?
28. Does the rain have a father, or who has birthed the drops of dew?
29. From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the frost of heaven,
30. when the waters hide like stone, and the surface of the deep is frozen?