¹⁸ can you join him in spreading out the skies,^(A)
    hard as a mirror of cast bronze?^(B)

¹¹ He made darkness his covering,^(A) his canopy^(B) around him—
    the dark rain clouds of the sky.

²⁷ I was there when he set the heavens in place,^(A)
    when he marked out the horizon^(B) on the face of the deep,

²² He sits enthroned^(A) above the circle of the earth,
    and its people are like grasshoppers.^(B)
He stretches out the heavens^(C) like a canopy,^(D)
    and spreads them out like a tent^(E) to live in.^(F)

²³ “Am I only a God nearby,^(A)”
declares the Lord,
    “and not a God far away?
²⁴ Who can hide^(B) in secret places
    so that I cannot see them?”
declares the Lord.
    “Do not I fill heaven and earth?”^(C)
declares the Lord.