1Then Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
2Who is this that darkeneth counsel
3Gird up now thy loins like a man;
4Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?
5Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest?
6Whereupon were the foundations thereof fastened?
7When the morning stars sang together,
8Or who shut up the sea with doors,
9When I made clouds the garment thereof,
10And marked out for it my bound,
11And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further;
12Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days began,
13That it might take hold of the ends of the earth,
14It is changed as clay under the seal;
15And from the wicked their light is withholden,
16Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea?
17Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee?
18Hast thou comprehended the earth in its breadth?
19Where is the way to the dwelling of light?
20That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof,
21Doubtless, thou knowest, for thou wast then born,
22Hast thou entered the treasuries of the snow,
23Which I have reserved against the time of trouble,
24By what way is the light parted,
25Who hath cleft a channel for the waterflood,
26To cause it to rain on a land where no man is;
27To satisfy the waste and desolate ground,
28Hath the rain a father?
29Out of whose womb came the ice?
30The waters hide themselves and become like stone,
31Canst thou bind the cluster of the Pleiades,
32Canst thou lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season?
33Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens?
34Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds,
35Canst thou send forth lightnings, that they may go,
36Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts?
37Who can number the clouds by wisdom?
38When the dust runneth into a mass,
39Canst thou hunt the prey for the lioness,
40When they couch in their dens,
41Who provideth for the raven his prey,