Job 38 :
Then the Lord answered Job out of the storm. He said:
Who is this that darkens My council?
with words without knowledge?
Brace yourself like a man;
I will question you, and you will answer Me.
Where were you when I laid the earths foundation?
Tell Me if you understand.
Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
On what were its footing set, or who laid its cornerstone-
while the morning stars sang together and with
all the angels shouted for joy?
Who shut up the sea behind the doors when
it burst forth from the womb,
When I made the clouds its garment
and wrapped it in thick darkness,
when I fixed limits for it and set
its doors and bars in place, when I said,
this far you may come and no farther;
here is where your proud waves halt?
Have you ever given orders to the morning,
or shown the dawn its place,
that it might take the earth by the edges
and shake the wicked out of it?
The earth takes shape like clay under a seal;
its features stand out like those of a garment.
The wicked are denied their light,
and their upraised arm is broken.
Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea
or walked in the recesses of the deep?
Have the gates of death been shown to you?
Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth?
Tell Me if you know all this.
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