Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?

Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this.

Can you take them to their places? Do you know the paths to their dwellings?

Surely you know, for you were already born! You have lived so many years!

Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up God’s dominion over the earth?

“Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears her fawn?

Do you count the months till they bear? Do you know the time they give birth?

“I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted.

You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.

All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the Lord had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.