⁵ He established the earth on its foundations;
it will never be shaken.^(G)
6 You covered it with the deep
as if it were a garment;
the waters stood above the mountains.^(H)
7 At Your rebuke the waters fled;
at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away^(I)—
⁸ mountains rose and valleys sank^[b]—
to the place You established for them.^(J)
9 You set a boundary they cannot cross;
they will never cover the earth again.^(K)

¹⁰ He causes the springs to gush into the valleys;
they flow between the mountains.^(L)
11 They supply water for every wild beast;
the wild donkeys quench their thirst.^(M)
12 The birds of the sky live beside the springs;
they sing among the foliage.^(N)
13 He waters the mountains from His palace;
the earth is satisfied by the fruit of Your labor.^(O)

¹⁴ He causes grass to grow for the livestock
and provides crops for man to cultivate,
producing food from the earth,^(P)
15 wine that makes man’s heart glad—
making his face shine with oil—
and bread that sustains man’s heart.^(Q)

¹⁶ The trees of the Lord flourish,^[c]
the cedars of Lebanon that He planted.^(R)
17 There the birds make their nests;
the stork makes its home in the pine trees.^(S)
18 The high mountains are for the wild goats;
the cliffs are a refuge for hyraxes.^(T)

¹⁹ He made the moon to mark the^[d] festivals;^[e]
the sun knows when to set.^(U)
20 You bring darkness, and it becomes night,
when all the forest animals stir.^(V)
21 The young lions roar for their prey
and seek their food from God.^(W)
22 The sun rises; they go back
and lie down in their dens.^(X)
23 Man goes out to his work
and to his labor until evening.^(Y)

²⁴ How countless are Your works, Lord!
In wisdom You have made them all;
the earth is full of Your creatures.^[f](Z)
25 Here is the sea, vast and wide,
teeming with creatures beyond number—
living things both large and small.^(AA)
26 There the ships move about,
and Leviathan, which You formed to play there.^(AB)

²⁷ All of them wait for You
to give them their food at the right time.^(AC)
28 When You give it to them,
they gather it;
when You open Your hand,
they are satisfied with good things.^(AD)
29 When You hide Your face,
they are terrified;
when You take away their breath,
they die and return to the dust.^(AE)
30 When You send Your breath,^[g]
they are created,
and You renew the face of the earth.^(AF)

³¹ May the glory of the Lord endure forever;
may the Lord rejoice in His works.^(AG)
32 He looks at the earth, and it trembles;
He touches the mountains,
and they pour out smoke.^(AH)
33 I will sing to the Lord all my life;
I will sing praise to my God while I live.^(AI)
34 May my meditation be pleasing to Him;
I will rejoice in the Lord.^(AJ)
35 May sinners vanish from the earth
and wicked people be no more.^(AK)
My soul, praise Yahweh!
Hallelujah!

² Who is this who obscures My counsel
with ignorant words?^(B)
3 Get ready to answer Me like a man;
when I question^(C) you, you will inform Me.
⁴ Where were you when I established^(D) the earth?
Tell Me, if you have^[a] understanding.
⁵ Who fixed its dimensions? Certainly you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
⁶ What supports its foundations?
Or who laid its cornerstone
⁷ while the morning stars sang together
and all the sons of God^(E) shouted for joy?

⁸ Who enclosed the sea behind doors
when it burst from the womb,
⁹ when I made the clouds its garment
and thick darkness its blanket,^[b](F)
10 when I determined its boundaries^[c]
and put its bars and doors in place,
¹¹ when I declared: “You may come this far, but no farther;
your proud waves stop here”?

¹² Have you ever in your life commanded the morning
or assigned the dawn its place,
¹³ so it may seize the edges of the earth
and shake the wicked out of it?
¹⁴ The earth is changed as clay is by a seal;
its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.
¹⁵ Light^[d] is withheld from the wicked,
and the arm raised in violence is broken.

¹⁶ Have you traveled to the sources of the sea
or walked in the depths of the oceans?
¹⁷ Have the gates^(G) of death been revealed to you?
Have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
¹⁸ Have you comprehended the extent of the earth?
Tell Me, if you know all this.

¹⁹ Where is the road to the home of light?
Do you know where darkness lives,
²⁰ so you can lead it back to its border?
Are you familiar with the paths to its home?
²¹ Don’t you know? You were already born;^(H)
you have lived so long!^[e]
22 Have you entered the place where the snow is stored?
Or have you seen the storehouses of hail,^(I)
23 which I hold in reserve for times of trouble,
for the day of warfare and battle?^(J)
24 What road leads to the place where light is dispersed?^[f]
Where is the source of the east wind that spreads across the earth?

²⁵ Who cuts a channel for the flooding rain
or clears the way for lightning,
²⁶ to bring rain on an uninhabited land,
on a desert with no human life,^[g]
27 to satisfy the parched wasteland
and cause the grass to sprout?^(K)
28 Does the rain have a father?
Who fathered the drops of dew?^(L)
29 Whose womb did the ice come from?
Who gave birth to the frost of heaven
³⁰ when water becomes as hard as stone,^[h]
and the surface of the watery depths is frozen?^(M)

³¹ Can you fasten the chains of the Pleiades
or loosen the belt of Orion?
³² Can you bring out the constellations^[i] in their season
and lead the Bear^[j] and her cubs?^(N)
33 Do you know the laws^(O) of heaven?
Can you impose its^[k] authority on earth?
³⁴ Can you command^[l] the clouds
so that a flood of water covers you?^(P)
35 Can you send out lightning^(Q) bolts, and they go?
Do they report to you: “Here we are”?

³⁶ Who put wisdom^(R) in the heart^[m]
or gave the mind understanding?
³⁷ Who has the wisdom to number the clouds?
Or who can tilt the water jars of heaven
³⁸ when the dust hardens like cast metal
and the clods of dirt stick together?

³⁹ Can you hunt prey for a lioness
or satisfy the appetite of young lions^(S)
40 when they crouch in their dens
and lie in wait within their lairs?
⁴¹ Who provides the raven’s food^(T)
when its young cry out to God
and wander about for lack of food?