◄ Job 38 ►
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1[an error occurred while processing this directive]1Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:
2[an error occurred while processing this directive]2“Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
3[an error occurred while processing this directive]3Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me.
4[an error occurred while processing this directive]4“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.
5[an error occurred while processing this directive]5Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it?
6[an error occurred while processing this directive]6On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone,
7[an error occurred while processing this directive]7when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8[an error occurred while processing this directive]8“Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb,
9[an error occurred while processing this directive]9when I made clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band,
10[an error occurred while processing this directive]10and prescribed limits for it and set bars and doors,
11[an error occurred while processing this directive]11and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stayed’?
12[an error occurred while processing this directive]12“Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place,
13[an error occurred while processing this directive]13that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?
14[an error occurred while processing this directive]14It is changed like clay under the seal, and its features stand out like a garment.
15[an error occurred while processing this directive]15From the wicked their light is withheld, and their uplifted arm is broken.
16[an error occurred while processing this directive]16“Have you entered into the springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep?
17[an error occurred while processing this directive]17Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
18[an error occurred while processing this directive]18Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth? Declare, if you know all this.
19[an error occurred while processing this directive]19“Where is the way to the dwelling of light, and where is the place of darkness,
20[an error occurred while processing this directive]20that you may take it to its territory and that you may discern the paths to its home?
21[an error occurred while processing this directive]21You know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!
22[an error occurred while processing this directive]22“Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
23[an error occurred while processing this directive]23which I have reserved for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war?
24[an error occurred while processing this directive]24What is the way to the place where the light is distributed, or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?
25[an error occurred while processing this directive]25“Who has cleft a channel for the torrents of rain and a way for the thunderbolt,
26[an error occurred while processing this directive]26to bring rain on a land where no man is, on the desert in which there is no man,
27[an error occurred while processing this directive]27to satisfy the waste and desolate land, and to make the ground sprout with grass?
28[an error occurred while processing this directive]28“Has the rain a father, or who has begotten the drops of dew?
29[an error occurred while processing this directive]29From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who has given birth to the frost of heaven?
30[an error occurred while processing this directive]30The waters become hard like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
31[an error occurred while processing this directive]31“Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loose the cords of Orion?
32[an error occurred while processing this directive]32Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season, or can you guide the Bear with its children?
33[an error occurred while processing this directive]33Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish their rule on the earth?
34[an error occurred while processing this directive]34“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that a flood of waters may cover you?
35[an error occurred while processing this directive]35Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go and say to you, ‘Here we are’?
36[an error occurred while processing this directive]36Who has put wisdom in the inward parts or given understanding to the mind?
37[an error occurred while processing this directive]37Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can tilt the waterskins of the heavens,
38[an error occurred while processing this directive]38when the dust runs into a mass and the clods stick fast together?
39[an error occurred while processing this directive]39“Can you hunt the prey for the lion, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
40[an error occurred while processing this directive]40when they crouch in their dens or lie in wait in their thicket?
41[an error occurred while processing this directive]41Who provides for the raven its prey, when its young ones cry to God for help, and wander about for lack of food?
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