₂Who are you to question my wisdom

with your ignorant, empty words?

₃Now stand up straight

and answer the questions I ask you.

₄Were you there when I made the world?

If you know so much, tell me about it.

₅Who decided how large it would be?

Who stretched the measuring line over it?

Do you know all the answers?

₆What holds up the pillars that support the earth?

Who laid the cornerstone of the world?

₇In the dawn of that day the stars sang together,

and the heavenly beings shouted for joy.

₃₄Can you shout orders to the clouds

and make them drench you with rain?

₃₅And if you command the lightning to flash,

will it come to you and say, “At your service”?

₃₆Who tells the ibis when the Nile will flood,

or who tells the cock that rain will fall?

₃₇Who is wise enough to count the clouds

and tilt them over to pour out the rain,

₃₈rain that hardens the dust into lumps?

₃₉Do you find food for lions to eat,

and satisfy hungry young lions

₄₀when they hide in their caves,

or lie in wait in their dens?

₄₁Who is it that feeds the ravens

when they wander about hungry,

when their young cry to me for food?

₁Praise the LORD, my soul!

O LORD, my God, how great you are!

You are clothed with majesty and glory;

₂you cover yourself with light.

You have spread out the heavens like a tent

₃and built your home on the waters above.

You use the clouds as your chariot

and ride on the wings of the wind.

₄You use the winds as your messengers

and flashes of lightning as your servants.

₅You have set the earth firmly on its foundations,

and it will never be moved.

₆You placed the ocean over it like a robe,

and the water covered the mountains.

₇When you rebuked the waters, they fled;

they rushed away when they heard your shout of command.

₈They flowed over the mountains and into the valleys,

to the place you had made for them.

₉You set a boundary they can never pass,

to keep them from covering the earth again.

₂₄LORD, you have made so many things!

How wisely you made them all!

The earth is filled with your creatures.

₃₅May sinners be destroyed from the earth;

may the wicked be no more.

Praise the LORD, my soul!

Praise the LORD!