| 1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm.
He said:
2 \"Who is this that darkens my counsel with words
without knowledge?
3 Brace yourself like a man; I will question you,
and you shall answer me.
4 \"Where were you when I laid the earth\'s foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.
5 Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
6 On what were its footings set, or who laid its
cornerstone-
7 while the morning stars sang together and all the
angels shouted for joy?
8 \"Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst
forth from the womb,
9 when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it
in thick darkness,
10 when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and
bars in place,
11 when I said, \'This far you may come and no farther;
here is where your proud waves halt\'?
12 \"Have you ever given orders to the morning, or
shown the dawn its place,
13 that it might take the earth by the edges and shake
the wicked out of it?
14 The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its
features stand out like those of a garment.
15 The wicked are denied their light, and their
upraised arm is broken.
16 \"Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or
walked in the recesses of the deep?
17 Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have
you seen the gates of the shadow of death ?
18 Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the
earth? Tell me, if you know all this.
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