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Job 38
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1And after Elius had ceased from speaking, the Lord spoke to Job through the whirlwind and clouds, [saying],
1Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,
2Who is this that hides counsel from me, and confines words in [his] heart, and thinks to conceal [them] from me?
2“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
3Gird your loins like a man; and I will ask you, and do you answer me.
3Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me!
4Where were you when I founded the earth? tell me now, if you have knowledge,
4“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.
5who set the measures of it, if you know? or who stretched a line upon it?
5Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?
6On what are its rings fastened ? and who is he that laid the corner-stone upon it?
6What were its foundations fastened on? Or who laid its cornerstone,
7When the stars were made, all my angels praised me with a loud voice.
7when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8And I shut up the sea with gates, when it rushed out, coming forth out its mother's womb.
8“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,
9And I made a cloud its clothing, and swathed it in mist.
9when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,
10And I set bounds to it , surrounding it with bars and gates.
10marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,
11And I said to it, Hitherto shall you come , but you shall not go beyond, but your waves shall be confined within you.
11and said, ‘You may come here, but no further. Your proud waves shall be stopped here’?
12Or did I order the morning light in your time; and [did] the morning star [then first] see his appointed place;
12“Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place,
13to lay hold of the extremities of the earth, to cast out the ungodly out of it?
13that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?
14Or did you take clay of the ground, and form a living creature, and set it with the power of speech upon the earth?
14It is changed as clay under the seal, and presented as a garment.
15And have you removed light from the ungodly, and crushed the arm of the proud?
15From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.
16Or have you gone to the source of the sea, and walked in the tracks of the deep?
16“Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
17And do the gates of death open to you for fear; and did the porters of hell quake when they saw you?
17Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
18And have you been instructed in the breadth of the [whole earth] under heaven? tell me now, what is the extent of it?
18Have you comprehended the earth in its width? Declare, if you know it all.
19And in what kind of a land does the light dwell? and of what kind is the place of darkness?
19“What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,
20If you could bring me to their [utmost] boundaries, and if also you know their paths;
20that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?
21I know then that you were born at that time, and the number of your years is great.
21Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!
22But have you gone to the treasures of snow? and have you seen the treasures of hail?
22Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
23And is there a store [of them], for you against the time of [your] enemies, for the day of wars and battle ?
23which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
24And whence proceeds the frost? or [whence] is the south wind dispersed over the [whole world] under heaven?
24By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?
25And who prepared a course for the violent rain, and a way for the thunders;
25Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm,
26to rain upon the land where [there is] no man, the wilderness, where there is not a man in it; so as to feed the untrodden and uninhabited [land],
26to cause it to rain on a land where there is no man, on the wilderness, in which there is no man,
27and cause it to send forth a crop of green herbs?
27to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to grow?
28Who is the rain's father? and who has generated the drops of dew?
28Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?
29And out of whose womb comes the ice ? and who has produced the frost in the sky,
29Whose womb did the ice come out of? Who has given birth to the gray frost of the sky?
30which descends like flowing water? who has terrified the face of the ungodly?
30The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.
31And do you understand the band of Pleias, and have you opened the barrier of Orion?
31“Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?
32Or will you reveal Mazuroth in his season, and the evening star with his rays? Will you guide them?
32Can you lead the constellations out in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?
33And know you the changes of heaven, or the events which take place together under heaven?
33Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?
34And will you call a cloud with your voice , and will it obey you with a violent shower of much rain?
34“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you?
35And will you send lightnings, and they shall go? and shall they say to you, What is [your pleasure]?
35Can you send out lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
36And who has given to women skill in weaving, or knowledge of embroidery?
36Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?
37And who is he that numbers the clouds in wisdom, and has bowed the heaven [down] to the earth?
37Who can count the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the containers of the sky,
38For it is spread out as dusty earth, and I have cemented it as one hewn stone to another.
38when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together?
39And will you hunt a prey for the lions? and satisfy the desires of the serpents?
39“Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
40For they fear in their lairs, and lying in wait couch in the woods.
40when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?
41And who has prepared food for the raven? for its young ones wander and cry to the Lord, in search of food.
41Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?