1 Then the Lord answered Job out of the storm.
2 “Who is this that belittles my advice
3 Brace yourself like a man!
4 “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?
5 Who determined its dimensions?
6 On what were its footings sunk?
7 when the morning stars sang together
8 “Who shut the sea behind gates
9 when I clothed it with clouds
10 when I set a limit for it
11 when I said, ‘You may come this far but no farther.
12 “Have you ever given orders to the morning
13 so that it could grab the earth by its edges
14 The earth changes like clay stamped by a seal,
15 Wicked people are deprived of their light,
16 Have you gone to the springs in the sea
17 Have the gateways to death been revealed to you,
18 Have you ⌞even⌟ considered how wide the earth is?
19 “What is the way to the place where light lives?
20 so that you may lead it to its territory,
21 You must know because you were born then
22 Have you been to the warehouses where snow is stored
23 that I have stored up for the time of trouble,
24 Which is the way to the place where light is scattered
25 “Who made a channel for the flooding rains
26 to bring rain on a land where no one lives,
27 to saturate the desolate wasteland
28 Does the rain have a father?
29 From whose womb came the ice,
30 The water hardens like a stone,
31 “Can you connect the chains of the ⌞constellation⌟ Pleiades
32 Can you bring out the constellations at the right time
33 Do you know the laws of the sky
34 Can you call to the clouds
35 Can you send lightning flashes so that they may go and say to you,
36 Who put wisdom in the heart
37 Who is wise enough to count the clouds
38 when the dirt hardens into clumps
39 “Can you hunt prey for the lioness
40 as they crouch in their dens
41 “Who provides food for the crow