for this is unobserved by them willingly, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of water and through water standing together by the word of God,
And God saith, `Let an expanse be in the midst of the waters, and let it be separating between waters and waters.'
And God saith, `Let the waters under the heavens be collected unto one place, and let the dry land be seen:' and it is so.
To Him spreading the earth over the waters, For to the age `is' His kindness.
For He on the seas hath founded it, And on the floods He doth establish it.
By the word of Jehovah The heavens have been made, And by the breath of His mouth all their host.
Why `is' this -- a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, And a heart there is none?
And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly;
and himself is before all, and the all things in him have consisted.
by faith we understand the ages to have been prepared by a saying of God, in regard to the things seen not having come out of things appearing;