Job 38:4-15

Lexham English Bible

⁴ “Where were you at my laying the foundation of the earth?
Tell me, if you possess understanding.
⁵ Who determined its measurement? Yes, you do know.
Or who stretched the measuring line upon it?
⁶ On what were its bases sunk?
Or who laid its cornerstone,
⁷ when the morning stars were singing together
and all the sons of God^[a] shouted for joy?
⁸ “Or who shut the sea in with doors
at its bursting, when it went out of the womb,
⁹ at my making the clouds its garment
and thick darkness its swaddling band,
¹⁰ and I prescribed my rule for it,
and I set bars and doors,
¹¹ and I said, ‘You shall come up to here, but^[b] you shall not go further,
and here it will set a boundary for your proud surging waves’?^[c]
12 “Have you ever in your life^[d] commanded the morning?
Have you made the dawn know its place,
¹³ to take hold of the earth’s skirts
so that^[e] the wicked might be shaken off from it?
¹⁴ It is changed like clay under a seal,
and they appear like a garment.
¹⁵ And their light is withheld from the wicked,
and their uplifted arm is broken.