Job 38

4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?

Tell Me, if you have understanding.

5 Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know!

Or who stretched a measuring line across it?

6 On what were its foundations set,

or who laid its cornerstone,*38:6 Or who set its core in place

7 while the morning stars sang together

and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

8 Who enclosed the sea behind doors

when it burst forth from the womb,

9 when I made the clouds its garment

and thick darkness its blanket,

10 when I fixed its boundaries

and set in place its bars and doors,

11 and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther;

here your proud waves must stop’?