Jb 38:1Then Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind and said,
Jb 38:2 Who is this who darkens counsel / By words without knowledge?
Jb 38:3 Gird up now your loins like a mighty man; / For I will ask of you, and you shall inform Me.
Jb 38:4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? / Tell Me, if you have understanding.
Jb 38:5 Who set its measurements — if you know? / Or who stretched the measuring line over it?
Jb 38:6 Onto what were its bases sunk, / Or who laid its cornerstone,
Jb 38:7 When the morning stars sang together / And all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Jb 38:8 And who hedged in the sea with doors / When it burst forth, issuing from the womb,
Jb 38:9 When I made clouds its clothing / And deep darkness its swaddling clothes,
Jb 38:10 And I broke out My boundaries for it / And set up bars and doors,
Jb 38:11 And I said, To here you shall come and no farther, / And here shall your proud waves be stopped?
Jb 38:12 Have you ever commanded the morning since your days began? / Have you ever caused the dawn to know its place,
Jb 38:13 So that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, / And the wicked might be shaken out of it?
Jb 38:14 The earth is changed like clay under a seal, / And all things on it stand forth like a garment.
Jb 38:15 And from the wicked their light is withheld, / And the high arm is broken.
Jb 38:16 Have you entered into the springs of the sea, / Or have you walked about in the recesses of the deep?
Jb 38:17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you, / Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Jb 38:18 Have you comprehended the full expanse of the earth? / Declare it, if you know it all.
Jb 38:19 Where is the way to the dwelling of the light? / And the darkness, where is its place,
Jb 38:20 That you may take it to its boundary, / And that you may perceive the paths to its house?
Jb 38:21 You know, for you were born then, / And the number of your days is great.
Jb 38:22 Have you entered into the storehouses of the snow, / Or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
Jb 38:23 Which I have reserved for the time of calamity, / For the day of battle and of war?
Jb 38:24 Where is the way to the place where the light is divided, / To the place where the east wind scatters upon the earth?
Jb 38:25 Who cut a channel for the rain torrent, / Or a way for the thunderbolt,
Jb 38:26 To make it rain on a land where no man is, / On a wilderness in which there is no man;
Jb 38:27 To satisfy the waste and desolate land / And to cause the shoots of grass to sprout?
Jb 38:28 Does the rain have a father? / Or who begot the drops of dew?
Jb 38:29 From whose womb does the ice come forth? / And the frost of heaven, who gave birth to it?
Jb 38:30 The waters hide themselves and become like stone, / And the surface of the deep is frozen.
Jb 38:31 Can you fasten the bands of the Pleiades, / Or loosen the cords of Orion?
Jb 38:32 Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season? / Or can you guide the Bear with its cubs?
Jb 38:33 Do you know the laws of the heavens? / Do you establish their rule on the earth?
Jb 38:34 Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, / So that a flood of water would cover you?
Jb 38:35 Can you send forth lightnings, so that they would go / And say to you, Here we are?
Jb 38:36 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts, / Or given understanding to the mind?
Jb 38:37 Who can number the clouds by wisdom, / Or who can tip over the water jars of heaven,
Jb 38:38 When the dust runs into a mass / And the clods stick together?
Jb 38:39 Can you hunt prey for the lioness, / Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
Jb 38:40 When they crouch in their dens, / When they lie in wait in the thicket?
Jb 38:41 Who provides for the raven its prey / When its young ones cry out to God / And wander about for lack of food?
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