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with words without knowledge?
I will question you
and you will inform me!
when I laid the foundation of the earth?
Tell me, if you possess understanding!
or who stretched a measuring line across it?
or who laid its cornerstone -
and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
when it burst forth, coming out of the womb,
and thick darkness its swaddling band,
and set in place its bolts and doors,
and no farther,
here your proud waves will be confined'?
or made the dawn know its place,
and shake the wicked out of it?
its features are dyed like a garment.
and the arm raised in violence is broken.
or walked about in the recesses of the deep?
Have you seen the gates of deepest darkness?
Tell me, if you know it all!
and darkness, where is its place,
and perceive the pathways to their homes?
and the number of your days is great!
or seen the armory of the hail,
for the day of war and battle?
or the east winds scattered over the earth?
and a path for the rumble of thunder,
a desert where there are no human beings,
and to cause it to sprout with vegetation?
or who has fathered the drops of the dew?
and the frost from the sky, who gives birth to it,
when the surface of the deep is frozen solid?
or release the cords of Orion?
the constellations in their seasons,
or guide the Bear with its cubs?
or can you set up their rule over the earth?
so that a flood of water covers you?
Will they say to you, 'Here we are'?
or has imparted understanding to the mind?
and who can tip over the water jars of heaven,
and the clumps of earth stick together?
and satisfy the appetite of the lions,
when they wait in ambush in the thicket?
when its young cry out to God
and wander about for lack of food?
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