Job 38:4-15
International Standard Version
On the Natural World
4 “Where were you when I laid the foundation of my earth?
Tell me,[a] since you’re so informed!
5 Who set its measurement? Am I to assume you know?
Who stretched a boundary line over it?
6 On what were its bases set?
Who laid its corner stone
7 while the morning stars sang together
and all the divine beings[b] shouted joyfully?
8 “Who[c] enclosed the sea with limits[d]
when it gushed out of the womb,
9 when I made clouds to be its clothes
and thick darkness its swaddling blanket,
10 when I proscribed a boundary for it,
set in place bars and doors for it;
11 and said, ‘You may come only this far and no more.
Your majestic waves will stop here.’?
12 “Have you ever commanded the morning at any time during your life?[e]
Do you know where the dawn lives,
13 where it seizes the edge of the earth
and shakes the wicked out of it?
14 Like clay is molded by a signet ring,
the earth’s hills and valleys[f] then stand out
like the colors of a garment.
15 Then from the wicked their light is withheld
and their upraised arm is broken.
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