⁴ “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?
    Declare, if you have understanding.
⁵ Who has determined its measurements, if you know?
    Or who has stretched the line upon it?
⁶ To what are its foundations fastened?
    Or who laid its cornerstone
⁷ when the morning stars sang together,
    and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

⁸ “Or who shut up the sea with doors
    when it broke forth and went out of the womb?
⁹ When I made the cloud its garment,
    and thick darkness its swaddling band,
¹⁰ and broke up for it My decreed place,
    and set bars and doors,
¹¹ and said, ‘This far you will come but no farther,
    and here your proud waves will be stopped’?

¹² “Have you commanded the morning in your days,
    and caused the dawn to know its place,
¹³ that it might take hold of the ends of the earth,
    that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
¹⁴ It is turned like clay by the seal,
    and it stands out as a garment.
¹⁵ From the wicked their light is withheld,
    and the high arm will be broken.