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11 I said to the sea, “This is as far as you can come.
    You may come no further.
    Your powerful waves must stop there!”

12 But you, Job, did you ever command the morning to begin?
    No! You have never in your whole life told the sun when it should rise.
13 You have not told the light of day to cover the earth.
    You have not told it to chase away the wicked things that happen in the night.

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11 when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther;(A)
    here is where your proud waves halt’?(B)

12 “Have you ever given orders to the morning,(C)
    or shown the dawn its place,(D)
13 that it might take the earth by the edges
    and shake the wicked(E) out of it?(F)

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