1 Then Jehovah answered Job out of the tempest, and said:

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

3 Now gird up your loins like a man; I will consult with you, and you declare unto Me.

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

5 Who has fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who has stretched the line upon it?

6 To 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 in the sea with doors, when it burst forth and came forth from the womb;

9 when I made the clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band;