Week 21 of Ordinary Time

But the Lord, responding to Job from a whirlwind, said: Who is this that wraps sentences in unskilled words? Gird your waist like a man. I will question you, and you must answer me. Where were you, when I set the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who set its measurements, if you know, or who stretched a line over it? Upon what have its bases been grounded, and who set forth its cornerstone, when the morning stars praised me together, and all the sons of God made a joyful noise? Who enclosed the sea with doors, when it broke forth as if issuing from the womb, when I stationed a cloud as its garment and wrapped it in a mist as if swaddling an infant? I encircled it with my limits, and I positioned its bars and doors. And I said: “This far you will approach, and you will proceed no further, and here you will break your swelling waves.”