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