Who closed the gates

to hold back the sea when it burst from

the womb of the earth?

It was I who covered the sea with clouds

and wrapped it in darkness.

I marked a boundary for the sea

and kept it behind locked gates.

I told it, "So far and no farther

Here your powerful waves must stop."

Job, have you ever in all your life

commanded a day to dawn?

Have your ordered the lawn

to seize the earth and shake

the wicked from their hiding places?…"