Job 38
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1[an error occurred while processing this directive]1Then the LORD answered Job from the whirlwind. He said:
2[an error occurred while processing this directive]2Who is this who obscures My counsel with ignorant words?
3[an error occurred while processing this directive]3Get ready to answer Me like a man; when I question you, you will inform Me.
4[an error occurred while processing this directive]4Where were you when I established the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.
5[an error occurred while processing this directive]5Who fixed its dimensions? Certainly you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?
6[an error occurred while processing this directive]6What supports its foundations? Or who laid its cornerstone
7[an error occurred while processing this directive]7while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8[an error occurred while processing this directive]8Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst from the womb,
9[an error occurred while processing this directive]9when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,
10[an error occurred while processing this directive]10when I determined its boundaries and put its bars and doors in place,
11[an error occurred while processing this directive]11when I declared: "You may come this far, but no farther; your proud waves stop here"?
12[an error occurred while processing this directive]12Have you ever in your life commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,
13[an error occurred while processing this directive]13so it may seize the edges of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?
14[an error occurred while processing this directive]14The earth is changed as clay is by a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.
15[an error occurred while processing this directive]15Light is withheld from the wicked, and the arm raised in violence is broken.
16[an error occurred while processing this directive]16Have you traveled to the sources of the sea or walked in the depths of the oceans?
17[an error occurred while processing this directive]17Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
18[an error occurred while processing this directive]18Have you comprehended the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.
19[an error occurred while processing this directive]19Where is the road to the home of light? Do you know where darkness lives,
20[an error occurred while processing this directive]20so you can lead it back to its border? Are you familiar with the paths to its home?
21[an error occurred while processing this directive]21Don't you know? You were already born; you have lived so long!
22[an error occurred while processing this directive]22Have you entered the place where the snow is stored? Or have you seen the storehouses of hail,
23[an error occurred while processing this directive]23which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of warfare and battle?
24[an error occurred while processing this directive]24What road leads to the place where light is dispersed? Where is the source of the east wind that spreads across the earth?
25[an error occurred while processing this directive]25Who cuts a channel for the flooding rain or clears the way for lightning,
26[an error occurred while processing this directive]26to bring rain on an uninhabited land, on a desert with no human life,
27[an error occurred while processing this directive]27to satisfy the parched wasteland and cause the grass to sprout?
28[an error occurred while processing this directive]28Does the rain have a father? Who fathered the drops of dew?
29[an error occurred while processing this directive]29Whose womb did the ice come from? Who gave birth to the frost of heaven
30[an error occurred while processing this directive]30when water becomes as hard as stone, and the surface of the watery depths is frozen?
31[an error occurred while processing this directive]31Can you fasten the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?
32[an error occurred while processing this directive]32Can you bring out the constellations in their season and lead the Bear and her cubs?
33[an error occurred while processing this directive]33Do you know the laws of heaven? Can you impose its authority on earth?
34[an error occurred while processing this directive]34Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?
35[an error occurred while processing this directive]35Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go? Do they report to you: "Here we are"?
36[an error occurred while processing this directive]36Who put wisdom in the heart or gave the mind understanding?
37[an error occurred while processing this directive]37Who has the wisdom to number the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of heaven
38[an error occurred while processing this directive]38when the dust hardens like cast metal and the clods of dirt stick together?
39[an error occurred while processing this directive]39Can you hunt prey for a lioness or satisfy the appetite of young lions
40[an error occurred while processing this directive]40when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait within their lairs?
41[an error occurred while processing this directive]41Who provides the raven's food when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?
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