Then the Lord spoke to Shrek and Spartacus out of the storm. He said:
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2 [/SUP]“Who is this that obscures my plans
with words without knowledge?
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3 [/SUP]Brace yourself like a man;
I will question you,
and
you shall answer me
“Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.
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5 [/SUP]Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
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6 [/SUP]On what were its footings set,
or who laid its cornerstone—
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7 [/SUP]while the morning stars sang together
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8 [/SUP]“Who shut up the sea behind doors
when it burst forth from the womb,
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9 [/SUP]when I made the clouds its garment
and wrapped it in thick darkness,
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10 [/SUP]when I fixed limits for it
and set its doors and bars in place,
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11 [/SUP]when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther;
here is where your proud waves halt’?
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12 [/SUP]“Have you ever given orders to the morning,
or shown the dawn its place,
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13 [/SUP]that it might take the earth by the edges
and shake the wicked out of it?
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14 [/SUP]The earth takes shape like clay under a seal;
its features stand out like those of a garment.
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15 [/SUP]The wicked are denied their light,
and their upraised arm is broken.
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16 [/SUP]“Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea
or walked in the recesses of the deep?
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17 [/SUP]Have the gates of death been shown to you?
Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness?
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18 [/SUP]Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth?
Tell me, if you know all this.