[1] Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,
[2] “Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
[3] Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me!
[4] “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.
[5] Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?
[6] Whereupon were 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 out of the womb,
[9] when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,
[10] marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,
[11] and said, ‘Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?’
[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, and shake the wicked out of it?
[14] It is changed as clay under the seal, and presented as a garment.
[15] From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.
[16] “Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
[17] Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
[18] Have you comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if you know it all.
[19] “What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,
[20] that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?
[21] Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!
[22] Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, or have you seen the treasures of the hail,
[23] which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
[24] By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?
[25] Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm;
[26] To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; on the wilderness, in which there is no man;
[27] to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to grow?
[28] Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?
[29] Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it?
[30] The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.
[31] “Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?
[32] Can you lead the constellations out in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?
[33] Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?
[34] “Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?
[35] Can you send out lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are?’
[36] Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?
[37] Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of the sky,
[38] when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together?
[39] “Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
[40] when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?
[41] Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?