Job 38:4-11

New Catholic Bible

⁴ “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundations?
    Tell me, if you have understanding.
⁵ Who determined its measurements? Do you know?
    Who stretched out the measuring line over it?
⁶ What supports the pillars at its bases?
    Who laid its cornerstone
⁷ while the morning stars sang in unison
    and the sons of God shouted for joy?
⁸ “Who shut up the sea behind doors
    when it burst forth from the womb,
⁹ when I made the clouds its garment
    and wrapped it in thick darkness,
¹⁰ when I established bounds for it
    and set its barred doors in place,
¹¹ when I said, ‘This far may you come, but no farther;
    here is where your proud waves must halt’?