First reading
The Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind:
“Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
I will question you, and you shall declare to me.
“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?
Tell me if you have understanding.
“Who shut in the sea with doors
when it burst out from the womb? —
when I made the clouds its garment,
and prescribed bounds for it,
and set bars and doors,
and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther,
and here shall your proud waves be stopped’?”