Job 38:1-15
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1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
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2 Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
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3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
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4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
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5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
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6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
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7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
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8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
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9 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
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10 And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
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11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
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12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
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13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
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14 It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.
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15 And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.