⁷ “Are you the first man ever born?^(A)
    Were you brought forth before the hills?^(B)

⁴ “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?^(A)
    Tell me, if you understand.^(B)

⁵ He set the earth^(A) on its foundations;^(B)
    it can never be moved.

²⁹ when he gave the sea its boundary^(A)
    so the waters would not overstep his command,^(B)
and when he marked out the foundations of the earth.^(C)

¹² Who has measured the waters^(A) in the hollow of his hand,^(B)
    or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens?^(C)
Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket,
    or weighed the mountains on the scales
    and the hills in a balance?^(D)

¹² But God made^(A) the earth^(B) by his power;
    he founded the world by his wisdom^(C)
    and stretched out the heavens^(D) by his understanding.