Job 38

The Lord Answers Job

1 # Job 40.6 Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind:

2 # Job 35.16; 42.3; 1 Tim 1.7 “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

3 # Job 40.7 Gird up your loins like a man;

I will question you, and you shall declare to me.

4 # Ps 104.5; Prov 8.29 “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?

Tell me, if you have understanding.

5Who determined its measurements—surely you know!

Or who stretched the line upon it?

6 # Job 26.7 On what were its bases sunk,

or who laid its cornerstone

7 # Job 1.6 when the morning stars sang together

and all the heavenly beings#38.7 Heb sons of God shouted for joy?

8 # Gen 1.9 “Or who shut in the sea with doors

when it burst out from the womb,

9 # Prov 30.4 when I made the clouds its garment

and thick darkness its swaddling band,

10 # Job 26.10 and prescribed bounds for it,

and set bars and doors,

11 # Ps 89.9 and said, ‘Thus far shall you come and no farther,

and here shall your proud waves be stopped’?

12 # Ps 74.16 “Have you commanded the morning since your days began

and caused the dawn to know its place,

13 # Ps 104.35 so that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth,

and the wicked be shaken out of it?

14It is changed like clay under the seal,

and it is dyed#38.14 Cn: Heb and they stand forth like a garment.

15 # Job 18.5; Ps 10.15 Light is withheld from the wicked,

and their uplifted arm is broken.

16 # Ps 77.19 “Have you entered into the springs of the sea

or walked in the recesses of the deep?

17 # Ps 9.13 Have the gates of death been revealed to you,

or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?

18 # Job 28.24 Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth?

Declare, if you know all this.

19“Where is the way to the dwelling of light,

and where is the place of darkness,

20 # Job 24.13; 26.10 that you may take it to its territory

and that you may discern the paths to its home?

21 # Job 15.7 Surely you know, for you were born then,

and the number of your days is great!

22 # Job 37.6 “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow,

or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,

23 # Ex 9.18; Josh 10.11; Isa 30.30; Ezek 13.11, 13; Rev 16.21 which I have reserved for the time of trouble,

for the day of battle and war?

24 # Job 26.10; 27.21 What is the way to the place where the light is distributed

or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?

25 # Job 28.26 “Who has cut a channel for the torrents of rain

and a way for the thunderbolt,

26 # Job 36.27; Ps 107.35 to bring rain on a land where no one lives,

on the desert, which is empty of human life,

27 # Ps 104.13, 14 to satisfy the waste and desolate land,

and to make the ground put forth grass?

28 # Ps 147.8; Jer 14.22 “Has the rain a father,

or who has fathered the drops of dew?

29 # Ps 147.16, 17 From whose womb did the ice come forth,

and who has given birth to the hoarfrost of heaven?

30The waters become hard like stone,

and the face of the deep is frozen.

31 # Job 9.9; Am 5.8 “Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades

or loose the cords of Orion?

32Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season,

or can you guide the Bear with its children?

33 # Jer 31.35 Do you know the ordinances of the heavens?

Can you establish their rule on the earth?

34 # v 37 ; Job 22.11; 36.27, 28“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,

so that a flood of waters may cover you?

35 # Job 36.32; 37.3 Can you send forth lightnings, so that they may go

and say to you, ‘Here we are’?

36 # Job 32.8; Ps 51.6; Eccl 2.26 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts#38.36 Meaning of Heb uncertain

or given understanding to the mind?#38.36 Meaning of Heb uncertain

37Who has the wisdom to number the clouds?

Or who can tilt the waterskins of the heavens

38when the dust runs into a mass

and the clods cling together?

39 # Ps 104.21 “Can you hunt the prey for the lion

or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

40 # Job 37.8; Ps 17.12 when they crouch in their dens

or lie in wait in their covert?

41 # Ps 147.9; Mt 6.26 Who provides for the raven its prey,

when its young ones cry to God

and wander about for lack of food?

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