1 Then did the Lord address Job out of the stormwind, and said,

2 Who is this that casteth darkness on my counsel by words without knowledge?

3 Do but gird up like a mighty man thy loins: and I will ask thee, and do thou inform me.

4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? tell it, if thou hast any understanding of it.

5 Who fixed her measurements, if thou knowest it? or who stretched the measuringline over her?

6 Upon what are her foundationpillars placed at rest? or who laid her cornerstone:

7 When altogether sang the morning stars in gladness, and shouted for joy all the sons of God?

8 And who closed up with doors the sea, when, issuing forth, it came out of the deep bosom of the earth?

9 When I made the clouds its garment, and thick fog its swaddlingcloth,