1 Then LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

2 Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

3 Gird up now thy loins like a man, for I will demand of thee, and declare thou to me.

4 Where were thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou have understanding.

5 Who determined the measures of it, if thou know? Or who stretched the line upon it?

6 Upon what were the foundations of it fastened? Or who laid the corner-stone of it

7 when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

8 Or [who] shut up the sea with doors when it broke forth, [like] it had issued out of the womb,

9 when I made clouds the garment of it, and thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,