¹ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

⁷ He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.

⁷ "But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.

⁸ Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you. The fish of the sea shall declare to you.

⁹ Who doesn't know that in all these, the hand of Yahweh has done this,