[1] Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind, [2] "Who is this who
darkens counsel    By words without knowledge? [3] Brace yourself like a
man,	For I will question you, then you answer me! [4] "Where were you
when I laid the foundations of the earth?    Declare, if you have
understanding. [5] Who determined the measures of it, if you know?    Or
who stretched the line on it? [6] Whereupon were the foundations of it
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 from the womb, [9] When I made
clouds the garment of it,    Thick darkness a swaddling-band for it, [10]
Marked out for it my bound,    Set bars and doors, [11] And said, `Here you
may come, but no further;    Here shall your proud waves be stayed?` [12]
"Have you commanded the morning in your days,	 And caused the dawn to
know its place; [13] That it might take hold of the ends of the earth,	 
And shake the wicked out of it? [14] It is changed as clay under the seal, 
  And stands forth as a garment. [15] From the wicked, their light is
withheld,    The high arm is broken. [16] "Have you entered into the
springs of the sea?    Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep? [17]
Have the gates of death been revealed to you?	 Or have you seen the gates
of the shadow of death? [18] Have you comprehended the earth in its
breadth?    Declare, if you know it all. [19] "What is the way to the
dwelling of light?    As for darkness, where is the place of it, [20] That
you should take it to the bound of it,	  That you should discern the paths
to the house of it? [21] Surely you know, for you were born then,    And
the number of your days is great! [22] Have you entered the treasuries of
the snow,    Or have you seen the treasures of the hail, [23] Which I have
reserved against the time of trouble,	 Against the day of battle and war?
[24] By what way is the lightning distributed,	  Or the east wind
scattered on the earth? [25] Who has cut a channel for the flood water,   
Or the path for the thunderstorm; [26] To cause it to rain on a land where
no man is;    On the wilderness, in which there is no man; [27] To satisfy
the waste and desolate ground,	  To cause the tender grass to spring
forth? [28] Does the rain have a father?    Or who fathers the drops of
dew? [29] Out of whose womb came the ice?    The gray frost of the sky, who
has given birth to it? [30] The waters become hard like stone,	  When the
surface of the deep is frozen. [31] "Can you bind the cluster of the
Pleiades,    Or loosen the cords of Orion? [32] Can you lead forth the
constellations in their season?    Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?
[33] Do you know the laws of the heavens?    Can you establish the dominion
of it over the earth? [34] "Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,	
That abundance of waters may cover you? [35] Can you send forth lightnings,
that they may go?    Do they report to you, `Here we are?` [36] Who has put
wisdom in the inward parts?    Or who has given understanding to the mind?
[37] Who can number the clouds by wisdom?    Or who can pour out the
bottles of the sky, [38] When the dust runs into a mass,    And the clods
of earth stick together? [39] "Can you hunt the prey for the lioness,	 Or
satisfy the appetite of the young lions, [40] When they crouch in their
dens,	 And lie in wait in the thicket? [41] Who provides for the raven
his prey,    When his young ones cry to God,	And wander for lack of
food?