²⁵ Before the mountains were put in their places, before the hills was my birth:

² Before the mountains were made, before you had given birth to the earth and the world, before time was, and for ever, you are God.

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

⁸ Were you present at the secret meeting of God? and have you taken all wisdom for yourself?

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?

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:

²⁷ But you are the unchanging One, and your years will have no end.

²⁸ The children of your servants will have a safe resting-place, and their seed will be ever before you.

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