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¹ Then aunswered the Lorde vnto Iob out of the whirle winde, and saide:² What is he that darkeneth his counsaile by wordes without knowledge?³ Girde vp thy loynes lyke a man: for I wyl question with thee, see thou geue me a direct aunswere.

⁴ Where wast thou when I layed the foundations of the earth? Tell playnely, if thou hast vnderstanding.⁵ Who hath measured it, knowest thou? or who hath spread the lyne vpon it?⁶ Whereupon are the foundations set? or who layed the corner stone thereof?⁷ Where wast thou when the morning starres praysed me together, and all the children of God reioyced triumphantly?⁸ Who shut the sea with doores, when it brake foorth as out of the wombe?⁹ When I made the cloudes [to be] a covering for it, and swadled it with the darke:¹⁰ When I gaue it my commaundement, making doores and barres for it,¹¹ Saying, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shalt thou laye downe thy proude and hie waues.

¹² Hast thou geue the morning his charge since thy dayes, and shewed the day spring his place,¹³ That it might take holde of the corners of the earth, and that the vngodly might be shaken out of it.¹⁴ They are fashioned as is the clay with the seale, and all stand vp as a garment.¹⁵ The vngodly shall be disapointed of their light, and the arme of the proude shalbe broken.¹⁶ Camest thou euer into the grounde of the sea, or walkedst in the lowe corners of the deepe?¹⁷ Haue the gates of death ben opened vnto thee? or hast thou seene the doores of the shadowe of death?¹⁸ Hast thou also perceaued how brode the earth is? If thou hast knowledge of all this:¹⁹ Then shewe me the way where light dwelleth, & where is the place of darkenesse?²⁰ That thou shouldest receaue it in the boundes thereof, and know the pathes to their houses.²¹ Knewest thou afore thou wast borne how olde thou shouldest be?²² Wentest thou euer into the treasures of the snow, or hast thou seene the secrete places of the hayle,²³ Which I haue prepared against the time of trouble, against the time of battaile and warre?²⁴ By what way is the light parted? and into what land breaketh the east winde?

²⁵ Who deuideth the waters into diuers chanels? or who maketh a way for the lightening and thunder,²⁶ To cause it to rayne on the earth where no man is, and in the wildernesse where none inhabiteth?²⁷ To satisfie the desolate and waste grounde, and to cause the budde of the hearbe to spring foorth.²⁸ Who is the father of the rayne? or who hath begotten the droppes of the deawe?²⁹ Out of whose wombe came the yce? Who hath gendred the coldnesse of the ayre?³⁰ That the waters are hidde as [with] a stone, and lye congealed aboue the deepe.³¹ Wylt thou hinder the sweete influences of the seuen starres? or loose the bandes of Orion?³² Canst thou bring foorth Mazzaroth in their time? canst thou also guide Arctutus with his sonnes?³³ Knowest thou the course of heauen, that thou mayest set vp the ordinaunce thereof vpon the earth?³⁴ Moreouer, canst thou lift vp thy voyce to the cloudes, that they may powre downe a great rayne vpon thee?³⁵ Canst thou send the lightninges also, that they may go their way, and be obedient vnto thee, saying, Lo here are we?³⁶ Who hath put wysdome in the reynes? or who hath geuen the heart vnderstanding?³⁷ Who numbreth the cloudes in wysdome? who stilleth the vehement waters of the heauen?³⁸ To cause the earth to grow into hardnesse, & the clots to cleaue fast together?³⁹ Wylt thou hunt the pray for the lion? or fill the appetite of the lions whelpes,⁴⁰ When they couche in their places, and tarie in the couert to lye in wayte?⁴¹ Who prouideth meate for the rauen, when his young ones crye vnto God, and flee about for lacke of meate?