Job 38

Then Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

Who is this that darkeneth counsel

Gird up now thy loins like a man;

Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?

Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest?

Whereupon were the foundations thereof fastened?

When the morning stars sang together,

Or who shut up the sea with doors,

When I made clouds the garment thereof,

And marked out for it my bound,

And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further;

Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days began,

That it might take hold of the ends of the earth,

It is changed as clay under the seal;

And from the wicked their light is withholden,

Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea?

Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee?

Hast thou comprehended the earth in its breadth?

Where is the way to the dwelling of light?

That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof,

Doubtless, thou knowest, for thou wast then born,

Hast thou entered the treasuries of the snow,

Which I have reserved against the time of trouble,

By what way is the light parted,

Who hath cleft a channel for the waterflood,

To cause it to rain on a land where no man is;

To satisfy the waste and desolate ground,

Hath the rain a father?

Out of whose womb came the ice?

The waters hide themselves and become like stone,

Canst thou bind the cluster of the Pleiades,

Canst thou lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season?

Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens?

Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds,

Canst thou send forth lightnings, that they may go,

Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts?

Who can number the clouds by wisdom?

When the dust runneth into a mass,

Canst thou hunt the prey for the lioness,

When they couch in their dens,

Who provideth for the raven his prey,