Bible in Basic English
"When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it,"
— Job 38:9, Bible in Basic English
“When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,”
On what were its pillars based, or who put down its angle-stone,
When the morning stars made songs together, and all the sons of the gods gave cries of joy?
Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;
When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it,
Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;
And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?
Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;