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¹ Then answered the Lord vnto Iob out of the whirle winde, and said,² Who is this that darkeneth the counsell by wordes without knowledge?³ Girde vp nowe thy loynes like a man: I will demande of thee & declare thou vnto me.

⁴ Where wast thou when I layd the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast vnderstanding,⁵ Who hath layde the measures thereof, if thou knowest, or who hath stretched the line ouer it:⁶ Whereupon are the foundations thereof set: or who layed the corner stone thereof:⁷ When the starres of the morning praysed me together, and all the children of God reioyced:⁸ Or who hath shut vp the Sea with doores, when it yssued and came foorth as out of the wombe:⁹ When I made the cloudes as a couering thereof, and darkenesse as the swadeling bands thereof:¹⁰ When I stablished my commandement vpon it, and set barres and doores,¹¹ And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall it stay thy proude waues.

¹² Hast thou commanded the morning since thy dayes? hast thou caused the morning to knowe his place,¹³ That it might take hold of the corners of the earth, and that the wicked might be shaken out of it?¹⁴ It is turned as clay to facion, and all stand vp as a garment.¹⁵ And from the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the hie arme shalbe broken.¹⁶ Hast thou entred into the bottomes of the sea? or hast thou walked to seeke out the depth?¹⁷ Haue the gates of death bene opened vnto thee? or hast thou seene the gates of the shadowe of death?¹⁸ Hast thou perceiued the breadth of the earth? tell if thou knowest all this.¹⁹ Where is the way where light dwelleth? and where is the place of darkenesse,²⁰ That thou shouldest receiue it in the boundes thereof, and that thou shouldest knowe the paths to the house thereof?²¹ Knewest thou it, because thou wast then borne, and because the nomber of thy dayes is great?²² Hast thou entred into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seene the treasures of ye haile,²³ Which I haue hid against the time of trouble, against the day of warre and battell?²⁴ By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the East winde vpon the earth?

²⁵ Who hath deuided the spowtes for the raine? or the way for the lightning of ye thunders,²⁶ To cause it to raine on the earth where no man is, and in the wildernes where there is no man?²⁷ To fulfil the wilde and waste place, and to cause the bud of the herbe to spring forth?²⁸ Who is the father of the rayne? or who hath begotten the droppes of the dewe?²⁹ Out of whose wombe came the yee? who hath ingendred the frost of the heauen?³⁰ The waters are hid as with a stone: and the face of the depth is frosen.³¹ Canst thou restraine the sweete influences of the Pleiades? or loose the bandes of Orion?³² Canst thou bring foorth Mazzaroth in their time? canst thou also guide Arcturus with his sonnes?³³ Knowest thou the course of heauen, or canst thou set the rule thereof in the earth?³⁴ Canst thou lift vp thy voice to the cloudes that the aboundance of water may couer thee?³⁵ Canst thou sende the lightenings that they may walke, and say vnto thee, Loe, heere we are?³⁶ Who hath put wisedome in the reines? or who hath giuen the heart vnderstanding?³⁷ Who can nomber cloudes by wisedome? or who can cause to cease the bottels of heaue,³⁸ When the earth groweth into hardnesse, and the clottes are fast together?³⁹ Wilt thou hunt the pray for the lyon? or fill the appetite of the lyons whelpes,⁴⁰ When they couch in their places, and remaine in the couert to lye in waite?⁴¹ Who prepareth for the rauen his meate, when his birdes crie vnto God, wandering for lacke of meate?