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

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

3 Gird up now your loins like a [noble] man; For I will demand of you, and you declare to me.

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

5 Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?

6 On what were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone,

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, [as if] it had issued out of the womb;

9 When I made clouds its garment, And thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,