Job 38

Yahweh Interrogates Job

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*Or "heavenly beings" 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*Hebrew "and" you shall not go further,

and here it will set a boundary for your proud surging waves’?*Literally "for the pride of your surging waves"