4Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?
Tell Me, if you have understanding.
5Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know!
Or who stretched a measuring line across it?
6On what were its foundations set,
or who laid its cornerstone,
7while the morning stars sang together
and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8Who enclosed the sea behind doors
when it burst forth from the womb,
9when I made the clouds its garment
and thick darkness its blanket,
10when I fixed its boundaries
and set in place its bars and doors,
11and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther;
here your proud waves must stop’?
— Job 38:4-11