²¹ No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great.

⁷ Were you the first man to come into the world? or did you come into being before the hills?

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

¹² Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;