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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then the LORD spoke to Job out of the storm. He said: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Who is this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone-- |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb, |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness, |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11when I said, 'This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt'? |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13that it might take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it? |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features stand out like those of a garment. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The wicked are denied their light, and their upraised arm is broken. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"Have you journeyed to 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 shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness? |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"What is the way to the abode of light? And where does darkness reside? |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Can you take them to their places? Do you know the paths to their dwellings? |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Surely you know, for you were already born! You have lived so many years! |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22"Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail, |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23which I reserve for times of trouble, for days of war and battle? |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed, or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth? |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain, and a path for the thunderstorm, |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26to water a land where no one lives, an uninhabited desert, |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27to satisfy a desolate wasteland and make it sprout with grass? |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Does the rain have a father? Who fathers the drops of dew? |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30when the waters become hard as stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen? |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31"Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades? Can you loosen Orion's belt? |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear with its cubs? |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up God's dominion over the earth? |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34"Can you raise your voice to the clouds and cover yourself with a flood of water? |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35Do you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, 'Here we are'? |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36Who gives the ibis wisdom or gives the rooster understanding? |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38when the dust becomes hard and the clods of earth stick together? |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39"Do you hunt the prey for the lioness and satisfy the hunger of the lions |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40when they crouch in their dens or lie in wait in a thicket? |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food? |
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