God Answers Job

Job 38:1-11

Then answered the Lord vnto Iob out of the whirle winde, and said,

Who is this that darkeneth the counsell by wordes without knowledge?

Girde vp nowe thy loynes like a man: I will demande of thee and declare thou vnto me.

Where wast thou when I layd the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast vnderstanding,

Who hath layde the measures thereof, if thou knowest, or who hath stretched the line ouer it:

Whereupon are the foundations thereof set: or who layed the corner stone thereof:

When the starres of the morning praysed me together, and all the children of God reioyced:

Or who hath shut vp the Sea with doores, when it yssued and came foorth as out of the wombe:

When I made the cloudes as a couering thereof, and darkenesse as the swadeling bands thereof:

When I stablished my commandement vpon it, and set barres and doores,

And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall it stay thy proude waues.