Job 38:4-41 Where were you when I founded the earth? Tell if you know with understanding.

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁴ Where were you when I founded the earth? Tell if you know with understanding. ⁵ Who determined its measurements--for surely you know! Or who stretched out a tape upon it? ⁶ On what were its sockets sunk? Or who directed its cornerstone in place, ⁷ When the stars of the morning jubilated together, And all the sons of Elohim shouted with joy? ⁸ Who shut in the sea with double doors When it rushed forth, it came forth from the womb, ⁹ When I made a cloud its garment And murkiness its swaddling band, ¹⁰ When I set My statute upon it And broke bar and doors, ¹¹ When I said, Unto here shall you come but shall not proceed farther, And here a limit is set to the pride of your billows? ¹² In all your days have you ever instructed the morning? Have you made known to the dawn its place, ¹³ That it might take hold of the wings of the earth, And the wicked be shaken out of it? ¹⁴ It turns itself to hues like sealed clay And is streaked like a garment. ¹⁵ Then from the wicked their light is withheld And the exalted arm is broken. ¹⁶ Have you ever come unto the seepings of the sea Or walked about to fathom the abyss? ¹⁷ Have the gates of death been revealed to you, And have you seen the gates of the shadow of death? ¹⁸ Have you comprehended the vast width of the earth? Tell if you know all of it. ¹⁹ Where is this, the pathway where light tabernacles, And where is this, where darkness has its place, ²⁰ That you may take it to its territory, And that you may understand the tracks to its home? ²¹ You know, for you were born back then! And the number of your days is great!" ²² Have you entered into the treasuries of snow, And have you seen the treasuries of hail, ²³ Which I have kept back for the season of distress, For the day of attack and war? ²⁴ Where is this, the pathway where light is apportioned, Where the east wind is scattered over the earth? ²⁵ Who has divided off a trench for overflowing rains And set a pathway for the perceptible portents of thunderclaps, ²⁶ To bring rain on a land where no man is, A wilderness with no human it it, ²⁷ To satisfy areas of ruination and wasteness, And to cause verdure to sprout from the arid place? ²⁸ Is there a father for the rain? Or who has begotten the globules of dew? ²⁹ From whose belly has the ice come forth? And the hoarfrost of the heavens, who has generated it, ³⁰ When water hides itself as stone, And the face of the abyss is frozen over? ³¹ Can you tie up the windings of the Pleiades? Or can you unloose the draw-cords of Orion? ³² Can you bring forth the planets in their season? And the Great Bear with her cubs, can you guide them? ³³ Do you know the statutes of the heavens? Or can you establish its superintendence over the earth? ³⁴ Can you raise up your voice to the thick clouds That the accumulation of water may cover you? ³⁵ Can you send forth the lightning bolts that they may go? And do they say to you, Here we are? ³⁶ Who has set wisdom in the hidden parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind? ³⁷ Who can number the sky clouds in wisdom? And the waterskins of the heavens, who can tip down, ³⁸ When the soil is solidly set into lumpy casts, And the clods are clung together? ³⁹ Can you hunt the prey for the lioness? And can you fill the life needs of the sheltered lions, ⁴⁰ When they prostrate in their habitations, Sit for ambush in their covert? ⁴¹ Who prepares its provision for the raven, When its young implore to El, Which stray without food?