¹² In the hollow of whose hand have the waters been measured? and who is able to take the heavens in his stretched-out fingers? who has got together the dust of the earth in a measure? who has taken the weight of the mountains, or put the hills into the scales?

⁴ Who has gone up to heaven and come down? who has taken the winds in his hands, prisoning the waters in his robe? by whom have all the ends of the earth been fixed? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you are able to say?

¹⁰ You, Lord, at the first did put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the works of your hands:

¹¹ They will come to their end; but you are for ever; they will become old as a robe;

¹² They will be rolled up like a cloth, even like a robe, and they will be changed: but you are the same and your years will have no end.

²⁵ In the past you put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the work of your hands.

²⁶ They will come to an end, but you will still go on; they all will become old like a coat, and like a robe they will be changed:

¹³ Yes, by my hand was the earth placed on its base, and by my right hand the heavens were stretched out; at my word they take up their places.

² You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:

³ The arch of your house is based on the waters; you make the clouds your carriage; you go on the wings of the wind:

⁴ Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.

⁵ By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?

⁶ On what were its pillars based, or who put down its angle-stone,

⁷ When the morning stars made songs together, and all the sons of the gods gave cries of joy?

⁸ Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;

⁹ When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it,

¹⁰ Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;

¹¹ And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?

¹¹ And I saw a great white seat, and him who was seated on it, before whose face the earth and the heaven went in flight; and there was no place for them.

²⁶ When he had not made the earth or the fields or the dust of the world.

²⁷ When he made ready the heavens I was there: when he put an arch over the face of the deep:

²⁸ When he made strong the skies overhead: when the fountains of the deep were fixed:

²⁵ When he made a weight for the wind, measuring out the waters;

⁷ Are you able to take God's measure, to make discovery of the limits of the Ruler of all?

⁸ They are higher than heaven; what is there for you to do? deeper than the underworld, and outside your knowledge;

⁹ Longer in measure than the earth, and wider than the sea.