1Forsooth the Lord answered from the whirlwind to Job, and said,

2Who is this man, wrapping together sentences with unwise words?

3Gird thou as a man thy loins; I shall ask thee, and answer thou [to] me.

4Where were thou, when I set the foundaments of the earth? show thou to me, if thou hast understanding.

5Who setted [the] measurements thereof, if thou knowest? either who stretched forth a line thereupon?

6Upon what thing be the founda-ments thereof made steadfast? either who sent down the cornerstone thereof,

7when the morrow stars praised me together, and all the sons of God sang joyfully?

8Who enclosed altogether the sea with doors, when it brake out coming forth as of the womb?

9When I setted a cloud the cover-ing thereof, and I wrapped it with darkness, as with ‘clothes of young childhood.

10I encompassed it with my terms, and I setted [or set] a bar, and doors;

11and I said, Hitherto thou shalt come, and thou shalt not go further; and here thou shalt break altogether thy swelling waves.

12Whether after thy birth thou commandedest to the beginning of the day, and showedest to the morrow-tide his place?

13Whether thou heldest shaking together the last parts of [the] earth, and shakedest away [the] wicked men therefrom?

14A sealing shall be restored as clay, and it shall stand as a cloth.

15The light of wicked men shall be taken away from them, and an high arm shall be broken.

16Whether thou hast entered into the depth of the sea, and hast walked in the last parts of the depth, that is, the ocean, or the great west sea?

17Whether the gates of death be opened to thee, and thou hast seen the dark doors?

18Whether thou hast beheld the breadth of the earth? Show thou to me, if thou knowest all things,

19in what way the light dwelleth, and which is the place of darkness;

20that thou lead out each thing to his terms, and that thou understand the ways of his house.

21Knewest thou then, that thou shouldest be born, and knew thou the number of thy days?

22Whether thou enteredest into the treasures of snow, either beheldest thou the treasures of hail?

23which things I made ready into the time of an enemy, into the day of fighting and of battle.

24By what way is the light spread abroad, and by what way heat is parted upon earth?

25Who gave course to the strongest rain, and way of the thunder sounding?

26That it should rain on the earth without man, in desert, where none of deadly men dwelleth?

27That it should [ful] fill a land without a way and desolate, and should bring forth green herbs?

28Who is [the] father of rain, either who engendered the drops of dew?

29Of whose womb went out ice, and who begat frost from heaven?

30Waters be made hard in the likeness of [a] stone, and the over-part of [the] ocean is constrained together.

31Whether thou shalt be able to join together [the] shining stars Pleiades, that is, the seven stars, either thou shalt be able to destroy the compass of Arcturus?

32Whether thou bringest forth Lucifer, that is, the day star, in his time, and makest the even star to rise upon the sons of [the] earth?

33Whether thou knowest the order of heaven, and shall set the reason thereof in [the] earth?

34Whether thou shalt raise thy voice into a cloud, and the fierceness of waters shall cover thee?

35Whether thou shalt send out lightnings, and they shall go forth, and those [or they] shall turn again, and shall say to thee, We be present?

36Who hath put wisdom to the entrails of man, that is, soul, either who gave understanding to the cock?

37Who shall tell out the reason of heavens, and who shall make [the] according of heaven to sleep?

38When dust was founded on the earth, and clots were joined together?

39Whether thou shalt take [the] prey to the lioness, and shalt fill the souls of her whelps,

40when they lie in caves, and espy in dens?

41Who maketh ready for the crow his meat, when his young cry to God, and wander about, for they have not meats?