Job 38
38
The LORD answers from a whirlwind
1Then the LORD answered Job from the whirlwind:
2Who is this darkening counsel
with words lacking knowledge?
3Prepare yourself like a man;
I will interrogate you, and you will respond to me.
The establishing of order
4Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundations?
Tell me if you know.
5Who set its measurements? Surely you know.
Who stretched a measuring tape on it?
6On what were its footings sunk;
who laid its cornerstone,
7while the morning stars sang in unison
and all the divine beings shouted?
8Who enclosed the Sea#38.8 Heb Yam, a sea god behind doors
when it burst forth from the womb,
9when I made the clouds its garment,
the dense clouds its wrap,
10when I imposed#38.10 Heb uncertain my limit for it,
put on a bar and doors
11and said, “You may come this far, no farther;
here your proud waves stop”?
12In your lifetime have you commanded the morning,
informed the dawn of its place
13so it would take hold of earth by its edges
and shake the wicked out of it?
14Do you turn it over like clay for a seal,
so it stands out like a colorful garment?
15Light is withheld from the wicked,
the uplifted arm broken.
The vast beyond
16Have you gone to the sea’s sources,
walked in the chamber of the deep?
17Have death’s gates been revealed to you;
can you see the gates of deep darkness?
18Have you surveyed earth’s expanses?
Tell me if you know everything about it.
19Where’s the road to the place where light dwells;
darkness, where’s it located?
20Can you take it to its territory;
do you know the paths to its house?
21You know, for you were born then;
you have lived such a long time!#38.21 Or the number of your days is many
22Have you gone to snow’s storehouses,
seen the storehouses of hail
23that I have reserved for a time of distress,
for a day of battle and war?
24What is the way to the place where light is divided up;
the east wind scattered over earth?
Meteorological facts
25Who cut a channel for the downpours
and a way for blasts of thunder
26to bring water to uninhabited land,
a desert with no human
27to saturate dry wasteland
and make grass sprout?
28Has the rain a father
who brought forth drops of dew?
29From whose belly does ice come;
who gave birth to heaven’s frost?
30Water hardens like stone;
the surface of the deep thickens.
31Can you bind Pleiades’ chains
or loosen the reins of Orion?
32Can you guide the stars
at their proper times,
lead the Bear with her cubs?
33Do you know heaven’s laws,
or can you impose its rule on earth?
34Can you issue an order to the clouds
so their abundant waters cover you?
35Can you send lightning so that it goes
and then says to you, “I’m here”?
36Who put wisdom in remote places,
or who gave understanding to a rooster?#38.36 Heb uncertain
37Who is wise enough to count the clouds,
and who can tilt heaven’s water containers
38so that dust becomes mud
and clods of dirt adhere?
Lion and raven
39Can you hunt prey for the lion
or fill the cravings of lion cubs?
40They lie in their den,
lie in ambush in their lair.
41Who provides food for the raven
when its young cry to God,
move about without food?
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Iyov 38
38
1Then Hashem answered Iyov out of the whirlwind, and said,
2Who is this that darkeneth etzah (counsel) with words without da'as?
3Gird up now thy loins like a gever; for I will ask of thee, and thou wilt answer Me.
4Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of eretz? Tell, if thou hast binah.
5Who hath drafted the dimensions thereof, if thou hast da'as? Or who hath stretched a measuring line across it?
6Whereupon are the foundations thereof set? Or who laid the even-pinnah (cornerstone) thereof,
7When the kokhvei boker sang together, and all the Bnei Elohim shouted for joy?
8Or who shut up the yam behind doors? Who brought it forth, issuing out of the rekhem (womb),
9When I made the anan the garment thereof, and thick darkness its swaddling band,
10And fixed bounds for it, and set bars and dlatot (doors),
11And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and poh (here) shall thy proud waves be stopped?
12Hast thou commanded the boker since thy yamim began; or caused the shachar (dawn) to know its place;
13That it might seize the ends of ha'aretz, that the resha'im be shaken out of it?
14It is changed like chomer (clay) under the khotam (seal); and they stand out like a garment.
15And from the resha'im their ohr is denied, and the upraised zero'a shall be broken.
16Hast thou entered into the springs of the yam? Or hast thou walked in the recesses of the tehom?
17Have the sha'arei mavet been disclosed unto thee? Or hast thou seen the sha'arei tzalmavet?
18Hast thou perceived the expanse of eretz? Tell Me if thou hast da'as of it all.
19Where is the derech where ohr dwelleth? And as for choshech, where is the place thereof,
20That thou shouldest take it to its border, and that thou shouldest have da'as of the paths to its bais?
21Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? Or because the mispar of thy yamim is so great?
22Hast thou entered into the otzrot (storehouses) of the snow? Or hast thou seen the otzrot of barad (hail),
23Which I have reserved for the time of tzar, for the yom kerav (battle) and milchamah (war)?
24Which is the derech where the ohr is distributed, where is scattered the east wind upon eretz?
25Who hath cut a channel for the overflowing of waters, or a derech for the lightning of thunder,
26To cause it to rain on eretz, where lo ish is; on midbar, wherein there is lo adam;
27To saturate a desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the desheh to spring forth?
28Hath the rain an av? Or who hath begotten the drops of tal (dew)?
29Out of whose beten cometh the ice? And the frost of Shomayim, who giveth birth to it?
30The mayim harden like even (stone), and the face of tehom is frozen.
31Canst thou bind the chains of the Pleiades, or loose the bonds of Orion?
32Canst thou bring forth Mazzarot in their times? Or canst thou guide the Bear with its banim?
33Knowest thou the chukkot of Shomayim? Canst thou set the rule over ha'aretz?
34Canst thou lift up thy kol (voice) to the clouds, that abundance of mayim may cover thee?
35Canst thou send lightning bolts, that they may go and say unto thee, Hineinu (here we are)?
36Who hath put chochmah in the inward parts, or who hath given binah to the mind?
37Who can number the clouds in chochmah, or who can tip the waterskins of Shomayim,
38When the dust hardens into a clump, and the clods cleave fast together?
39Wilt thou hunt the teref for the lioness, or fill the appetite of her whelps,
40When they crouch in their me'onot (dens), and abide in the lair to lie in ambush?
41Who provideth for the raven his food? When his young ones cry unto El, they wander about for lack of okhel.
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