38. Wert thou upon the flint when I confirmed it, or upon the granite when I laid its sheets?
39. The thunder, was it thou that didst call? Was the rain the tears of thy bringing-forth?
40. Be thou bowed down, nor question the pains that I have set over thee: for each thing have I ordained its shadow.
41. My thoughts are from eternity; I change not by reason of thy dismay. Thou shalt know Me for the Lord.
42. Who setteth Capella and Achernar to be gods for a term, and a guide upon the deep to strange peoples;
43. Who maketh Altair and Rigel the captains of His host; Who leaneth His spear upon Sirius ere the trumpets call;
44. Who holdeth Vega His armor-bearer, and hangeth his buckler upon Aldebaran;
45. Who hath convoked their chariots against the lamps of Evil, and their swords against the abyss.
46. Who healeth the day with night, and thy heart’s wound with the hands of little children;
47. Even they that seek the breast in darkness, hushing the voices that were aforetime.