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¹ Then the Lord answered Iob out of the whirlewind, and sayd, ² Who is this that darkneth counsell by words without knowledge? ³ Gird vp nowe thy loines like a man; for I will demaund of thee, and answere thou me.

⁴ Where wast thou when I layd the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast vnderstanding. ⁵ Who hath layd the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched the line vpon it? ⁶ Wherepuon are the foundations thereof fastened? Or who layd the corner stone thereof? ⁷ When the morning starres sang together, and all the sonnes of God shouted for ioy. ⁸ Or who shut vp the sea with doores, when it brake foorth as if it had issued out of the wombe? ⁹ When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thicke darknesse a swadling band for it, ¹⁰ And brake vp for it my decreed place, and set barres and doores, ¹¹ And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and heere shall thy proud waues be stayed.

¹² Hast thou commaunded the morning since thy daies? And caused the day-spring to know his place, ¹³ That it might take hold of the endes of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it? ¹⁴ It is turned as clay to the seale, and they stand as a garment. ¹⁵ And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arme shalbe broken. ¹⁶ Hast thou entred into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked in the search of the depth? ¹⁷ Haue the gates of death bene opened vnto thee? Or hast thou seene the doores of the shadow of death? ¹⁸ Hast thou perceiued the breadth of the earth? Declare if thou knowest it all. ¹⁹ Where is the way where light dwelleth? And as for darknesse, where is the place thereof? ²⁰ That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the pathes to the house thereof. ²¹ Knowest thou it, because thou wast then borne? Or because the number of thy daies is great? ²² Hast thou entred into the treasures of the snowe? Or hast thou seene the treasures of the haile, ²³ Which I haue reserued against the time of trouble, against the day of battaile and warre? ²⁴ By what way is the light parted? Which scattereth the East wind vpon the earth.

²⁵ Who hath diuided a water-course for the ouerflowing of waters? Or a way for the lightning of thunder, ²⁶ To cause it to raine on the earth, where no man is: on the wildernesse wherein there is no man? ²⁷ To satisfie the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herbe to spring forth. ²⁸ Hath the raine a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew? ²⁹ Out of whose wombe came the yce? And the hoary frost of heauen, who hath gendred it? ³⁰ The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deepe is frozen. ³¹ Canst thou bind the sweete influences of Pleiades? Or loose the bands of Orion? ³² Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season, or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sonnes? ³³ Knowest thou the ordinances of heauen? Canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth? ³⁴ Canst thou lift vp thy voice to the cloudes, that abundance of waters may couer thee? ³⁵ Canst thou send lightnings, that they may goe, and say vnto thee, Here we are? ³⁶ Who hath put wisedome in the inward parts? Or who hath giuen vnderstanding to the heart? ³⁷ Who can number the cloudes in wisedome? Or who can stay the bottles of heauen, ³⁸ When the dust groweeh into hardnesse, and the clods cleaue fast together? ³⁹ Wilt thou hunt the pray for the lyon? Or fill the appetite of the young lyons, ⁴⁰ When they couch in their dennes, and abide in the couert to lie in waite? ⁴¹ Who prouideth for the rauen his foode? when his young ones cry vnto God, they wander for lacke of meate.