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1Then the LORD answered Job from the whirlwind:

1The LORD responded to Job from the whirlwind and said:

2“Who is this that questions my wisdom with such ignorant words?

2"Who is this who keeps darkening my counsel without knowing what he's talking about?

3Brace yourself like a man, because I have some questions for you, and you must answer them.

3Stand up like a man! I'll ask you some questions, and you give me some answers!"

4“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you know so much.

4"Where were you when I laid the foundation of my earth? Tell me, since you're so informed!

5Who determined its dimensions and stretched out the surveying line?

5Who set its measurement? Am I to assume you know? Who stretched a boundary line over it?

6What supports its foundations, and who laid its cornerstone

6On what were its bases set? Who laid its corner stone

7as the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?

7while the morning stars sang together and all the divine beings shouted joyfully?

8“Who kept the sea inside its boundaries as it burst from the womb,

8"Who enclosed the sea with limits when it gushed out of the womb,

9and as I clothed it with clouds and wrapped it in thick darkness?

9when I made clouds to be its clothes and thick darkness its swaddling blanket,

10For I locked it behind barred gates, limiting its shores.

10when I proscribed a boundary for it, set in place bars and doors for it;

11I said, ‘This far and no farther will you come. Here your proud waves must stop!’

11and said, 'You may come only this far and no more. Your majestic waves will stop here.'?

12“Have you ever commanded the morning to appear and caused the dawn to rise in the east?

12"Have you ever commanded the morning at any time during your life? Do you know where the dawn lives,

13Have you made daylight spread to the ends of the earth, to bring an end to the night’s wickedness?

13where it seizes the edge of the earth and shakes the wicked out of it?

14As the light approaches, the earth takes shape like clay pressed beneath a seal; it is robed in brilliant colors.

14Like clay is molded by a signet ring, the earth's hills and valleys then stand out like the colors of a garment.

15The light disturbs the wicked and stops the arm that is raised in violence.

15Then from the wicked their light is withheld and their upraised arm is broken.

16“Have you explored the springs from which the seas come? Have you explored their depths?

16"Have you been to the source of the sea and walked about in the recesses of the deepest ocean?

17Do you know where the gates of death are located? Have you seen the gates of utter gloom?

17Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness?

18Do you realize the extent of the earth? Tell me about it if you know!

18Do you understand the breadth of the earth? Tell me, since you know it all!

19“Where does light come from, and where does darkness go?

19"Where is the road to where the light lives? Or where does the darkness live?

20Can you take each to its home? Do you know how to get there?

20Can you take it to its homeland, since you know the path to his house?

21But of course you know all this! For you were born before it was all created, and you are so very experienced!

21You should know! After all, you had been born back then, so the number of your days is great!

22“Have you visited the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of hail?

22"Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen where the hail is stored,

23(I have reserved them as weapons for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war.)

23which I've reserved for the tribulation to come, for the day of battle and war?

24Where is the path to the source of light? Where is the home of the east wind?

24Where is the lightning diffused or the east wind scattered around the earth?

25“Who created a channel for the torrents of rain? Who laid out the path for the lightning?

25"Who cuts canals for storm floods, and paths for the lightning and thunder,

26Who makes the rain fall on barren land, in a desert where no one lives?

26to bring rain upon a land without inhabitants, a desert in which no human beings live,

27Who sends rain to satisfy the parched ground and make the tender grass spring up?

27to satisfy a desolate and devastated desert, causing it to sprout vegetation?

28“Does the rain have a father? Who gives birth to the dew?

28"Does the rain have a father? Who fathered the dew?

29Who is the mother of the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens?

29Whose womb brings forth the ice? Who gives birth to frost out of an empty sky,

30For the water turns to ice as hard as rock, and the surface of the water freezes.

30when water solidifies like stone and the surface of the deepest sea freezes?

31“Can you direct the movement of the stars— binding the cluster of the Pleiades or loosening the cords of Orion?

31"Can you bind the chains of Pleiades or loosen the cords of Orion?

32Can you direct the constellations through the seasons or guide the Bear with her cubs across the heavens?

32Can you bring out constellations in their season? Can you guide the Bear with her cubs?

33Do you know the laws of the universe? Can you use them to regulate the earth?

33Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you regulate their authority over the earth?

34“Can you shout to the clouds and make it rain?

34"Can you call out to the clouds, so that abundant water drenches you?

35Can you make lightning appear and cause it to strike as you direct?

35Can you command the lightning, so that it goes forth and calls to you, 'Look at us!'

36Who gives intuition to the heart and instinct to the mind?

36"Who sets wisdom within you, or imbues your mind with understanding?

37Who is wise enough to count all the clouds? Who can tilt the water jars of heaven

37Who has the wisdom to be able to count the clouds, or to empty the water jars of heaven,

38when the parched ground is dry and the soil has hardened into clods?

38when dust dries into a mass and then breaks apart into clods?

39“Can you stalk prey for a lioness and satisfy the young lions’ appetites

39"Can you hunt prey for the lioness to satisfy young lions

40as they lie in their dens or crouch in the thicket?

40when they crouch in their dens and lie in ambush in their lairs?

41Who provides food for the ravens when their young cry out to God and wander about in hunger?

41Who prepares food for the raven, when its offspring cry out to God as they wander for lack of food?"

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