2 Who is this darkening counselwith words lacking knowledge?
3 Prepare yourself like a man;I will interrogate you, and you will respond to me.
4 Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundations?Tell me if you know.
5 Who set its measurements? Surely you know.Who stretched a measuring tape on it?
6 On what were its footings sunk;who laid its cornerstone,
7 while the morning stars sang in unisonand all the divine beings shouted?
8 Who enclosed the Sea behind doorswhen it burst forth from the womb,