Job 38:4-15

Evangelical Heritage Version

⁴ Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?
Tell me, if you understand anything about it.
⁵ Who determined its dimensions?
I am sure you know.
Who stretched out the surveying line over it?
⁶ What supports its foundation?
Who set its cornerstone in place,
⁷     when the morning stars sang loud songs together,
        and all the sons of God shouted for joy?^[a]
8 Who locked up the sea behind doors
    when it burst out of the womb?
⁹ When I clothed the sea with clouds,
when I wrapped it with thick darkness as its swaddling cloths,
¹⁰ when I broke its power with my decree,
when I locked it up behind barred, double doors,
¹¹ I said, “You may come this far, but no farther.
Here is the barrier for your proud waves.”

¹² Have you ever in all your days given a command to the morning?
Have you ever set a time for the sun to rise,
¹³ so it may grab the earth by its edges
and shake the wicked out of it?
¹⁴ The earth’s shapes become visible like designs impressed on clay,
and its decorations can be seen like those on a garment.
¹⁵ Their light is withheld from the wicked,
and an uplifted arm is broken.