Job 38:4-30

Bishops^{(i) 4} Where wast thou when I layed the foundations of the earth? Tell playnely, if thou hast vnderstanding ⁵ Who hath measured it, knowest thou? or who hath spread the lyne vpon it ⁶ Whereupon are the foundations set? or who layed the corner stone thereof ⁷ Where wast thou when the morning starres praysed me together, and all the children of God reioyced triumphantly ⁸ Who shut the sea with doores, when it brake foorth as out of the wombe ⁹ When I made the cloudes [to be] a covering for it, and swadled it with the darke ¹⁰ When I gaue it my commaundement, making doores and barres for it ¹¹ Saying, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shalt thou laye downe thy proude and hie waues ¹² Hast thou geue the morning his charge since thy dayes, and shewed the day spring his place ¹³ That it might take holde of the corners of the earth, and that the vngodly might be shaken out of it ¹⁴ They are fashioned as is the clay with the seale, and all stand vp as a garment ¹⁵ The vngodly shall be disapointed of their light, and the arme of the proude shalbe broken ¹⁶ Camest thou euer into the grounde of the sea, or walkedst in the lowe corners of the deepe ¹⁷ Haue the gates of death ben opened vnto thee? or hast thou seene the doores of the shadowe of death ¹⁸ Hast thou also perceaued how brode the earth is? If thou hast knowledge of all this ¹⁹ Then shewe me the way where light dwelleth, & where is the place of darkenesse ²⁰ That thou shouldest receaue it in the boundes thereof, and know the pathes to their houses ²¹ Knewest thou afore thou wast borne how olde thou shouldest be ²² Wentest thou euer into the treasures of the snow, or hast thou seene the secrete places of the hayle ²³ Which I haue prepared against the time of trouble, against the time of battaile and warre ²⁴ By what way is the light parted? and into what land breaketh the east winde ²⁵ Who deuideth the waters into diuers chanels? or who maketh a way for the lightening and thunder ²⁶ To cause it to rayne on the earth where no man is, and in the wildernesse where none inhabiteth ²⁷ To satisfie the desolate and waste grounde, and to cause the budde of the hearbe to spring foorth ²⁸ Who is the father of the rayne? or who hath begotten the droppes of the deawe ²⁹ Out of whose wombe came the yce? Who hath gendred the coldnesse of the ayre ³⁰ That the waters are hidde as [with] a stone, and lye congealed aboue the deepe