Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry to God, they wander for want of food.

When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?

Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,

Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

Upon what are the foundations of it fastened? or who laid its corner stone;

Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the day-spring to know its place;

Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?

And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.

Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in its season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with its sons?

Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is its place,

Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.

Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set its dominion on the earth?

Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?

Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;

And broke up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,

Have the gates of death been opened to thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shades of death?

When I made a cloud its garment, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it,

That it might take hold of the ends of earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?

It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.

Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of the dew?

Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?

Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say to thee, Here we are?

By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?

Who hath laid the measures of it, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?

And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the high arm shall be broken.

To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness in which there is no man;

Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,

Canst thou lift thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?

The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.

When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?

Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

That thou shouldest take it to its bound, and that thou shouldest know the paths to its house?

Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great?