⁴ “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?^(A)
    Tell me, if you understand.^(B)
5 Who marked off its dimensions?^(C) Surely you know!
    Who stretched a measuring line^(D) across it?
⁶ On what were its footings set,^(E)
    or who laid its cornerstone^(F)—

¹⁰ when I fixed limits for it^(A)
    and set its doors and bars in place,^(B)
11 when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther;^(C)
    here is where your proud waves halt’?^(D)

¹⁶ “Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea
    or walked in the recesses of the deep?^(A)
17 Have the gates of death^(B) been shown to you?
    Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness?^(C)
18 Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth?^(D)
    Tell me, if you know all this.^(E)