[1]Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind: [2]"Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? [3]Gird up your loins like a man, I will question you, and you shall declare to me.
[4]"Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. [5]Who determined its measurements - surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? [6]On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone [7]when the morning stars sang together and all the heavenly beings shouted for joy?
[8]"Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb? - [9]when I made the clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band, [10]and prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors, [11]and said, 'Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stopped'?
[12]"Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place, [13]so that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it? [14]It is changed like clay under the seal, and it is dyed like a garment. [15]Light is withheld from the wicked, and their uplifted arm is broken.
[16]"Have you entered into the springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep? [17]Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
[8]"Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb? - [9]when I made the clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band, [10]and prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors, [11]and said, 'Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stopped'?
[12]"Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place, [13]so that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it? [14]It is changed like clay under the seal, and it is dyed like a garment. [15]Light is withheld from the wicked, and their uplifted arm is broken.
[16]"Have you entered into the springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep? [17]Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
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