1Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,
2“Who is this who darkens counsel
3Brace yourself like a man,
4“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?
5Who determined its measures, if you know?
6What were its foundations fastened on?
7when the morning stars sang together,
8“Or who shut up the sea with doors,
9when I made clouds its garment,
10marked out for it my bound,
11and said, ‘You may come here, but no further.
12“Have you commanded the morning in your days,
13that it might take hold of the ends of the earth,
14It is changed as clay under the seal,
15From the wicked, their light is withheld.
16“Have you entered into the springs of the sea?
17Have the gates of death been revealed to you?
18Have you comprehended the earth in its width?
19“What is the way to the dwelling of light?
20that you should take it to its bound,
21Surely you know, for you were born then,
22Have you entered the storehouses of the snow,
23which I have reserved against the time of trouble,
24By what way is the lightning distributed,
25Who has cut a channel for the flood water,
26to cause it to rain on a land where there is no man,
27to satisfy the waste and desolate ground,
28Does the rain have a father?
29Whose womb did the ice come out of?
30The waters become hard like stone,
31“Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades,
32Can you lead the constellations out in their season?
33Do you know the laws of the heavens?
34“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,
35Can you send out lightnings, that they may go?
36Who has put wisdom in the inward parts?
37Who can count the clouds by wisdom?
38when the dust runs into a mass,
39“Can you hunt the prey for the lioness,
40when they crouch in their dens,
41Who provides for the raven his prey,