Job 38:12-24

¹² Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place; ¹³ So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it? ¹⁴ It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe; ¹⁵ And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken. ¹⁶ Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep? ¹⁷ Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you? ¹⁸ Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all. ¹⁹ Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark; ²⁰ So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house? ²¹ No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great. ²² Have you come into the secret place of snow, or have you seen the store-houses of the ice-drops, ²³ Which I have kept for the time of trouble, for the day of war and fighting? ²⁴ Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?