Study Desk

Where wast thou, when I founded the earth? Tell, if thou knowest understanding!

Who set the measurements thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched out over it a line?

Whereon were the pedestals thereof sunk? Or who laid the corner stone thereof; -

When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Or who shut in, with double doors, the sea, when, bursting out of the womb, it came forth;

When I put a cloud as the garment thereof, and a thick cloud as the swaddling-band thereof;

And brake off for it my boundary, and fixed a bar and double doors;

And said - Hitherto, shalt thou come, and no further, - and, here, shalt thou set a limit to the majesty of thy waves?

Since thy days began hast thou commanded the morning? or caused the dawn to know its place;

That it might lay hold of the wings of the earth, and the lawless be shaken out of it?

It transformeth itself like the clay of a seal, so that things stand forth like one arrayed;

That their light may be withdrawn from the lawless, and, the lofty arm, be shivered.