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

⁵ He has made the earth strong on its bases, so that it may not be moved for ever and ever;

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:

² But now, at the end of these days, it has come to us through his Son, to whom he has given all things for a heritage, and through whom he made the order of the generations;

¹ At the first God made the heaven and the earth.

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

²² The Lord made me as the start of his way, the first of his works in the past.

²⁹ When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth:

³⁰ Then I was by his side, as a master workman: and I was his delight from day to day, playing before him at all times;