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| 1Then the LORD answered Job from the whirlwind: | 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 2“Who is this that questions my wisdom with such ignorant words? | 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 3Brace yourself like a man, because I have some questions for you, and you must answer them. | 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 4“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you know so much. | 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 5Who determined its dimensions and stretched out the surveying line? | 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 6What supports its foundations, and who laid its cornerstone | 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 7as the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy? | 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 8“Who kept the sea inside its boundaries as it burst from the womb, | 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 9and as I clothed it with clouds and wrapped it in thick darkness? | 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 10For I locked it behind barred gates, limiting its shores. | 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 11I said, ‘This far and no farther will you come. Here your proud waves must stop!’ | 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 12“Have you ever commanded the morning to appear and caused the dawn to rise in the east? | 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 13Have you made daylight spread to the ends of the earth, to bring an end to the night’s wickedness? | 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 14As the light approaches, the earth takes shape like clay pressed beneath a seal; it is robed in brilliant colors. | 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 15The light disturbs the wicked and stops the arm that is raised in violence. | 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 16“Have you explored the springs from which the seas come? Have you explored their depths? | 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 17Do you know where the gates of death are located? Have you seen the gates of utter gloom? | 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 18Do you realize the extent of the earth? Tell me about it if you know! | 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 19“Where does light come from, and where does darkness go? | 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 20Can you take each to its home? Do you know how to get there? | 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 21But of course you know all this! For you were born before it was all created, and you are so very experienced! | 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 22“Have you visited the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of hail? | 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 23(I have reserved them as weapons for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war.) | 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 24Where is the path to the source of light? Where is the home of the east wind? | 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 25“Who created a channel for the torrents of rain? Who laid out the path for the lightning? | 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 26Who makes the rain fall on barren land, in a desert where no one lives? | 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 27Who sends rain to satisfy the parched ground and make the tender grass spring up? | 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 28“Does the rain have a father? Who gives birth to the dew? | 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 29Who is the mother of the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens? | 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 30For the water turns to ice as hard as rock, and the surface of the water freezes. | 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 31“Can you direct the movement of the stars— binding the cluster of the Pleiades or loosening the cords of Orion? | 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 32Can you direct the constellations through the seasons or guide the Bear with her cubs across the heavens? | 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 33Do you know the laws of the universe? Can you use them to regulate the earth? | 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 34“Can you shout to the clouds and make it rain? | 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 35Can you make lightning appear and cause it to strike as you direct? | 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 36Who gives intuition to the heart and instinct to the mind? | 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 37Who is wise enough to count all the clouds? Who can tilt the water jars of heaven | 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 38when the parched ground is dry and the soil has hardened into clods? | 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 39“Can you stalk prey for a lioness and satisfy the young lions’ appetites | 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 40as they lie in their dens or crouch in the thicket? | 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 41Who provides food for the ravens when their young cry out to God and wander about in hunger? | 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. | [an error occurred while processing this directive] |
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