Job 38
38
The LORD Speaks: Who Is Able to Challenge Me?
1Then the Lord answered Job out of the storm.
2“Who is this that belittles my advice
with words that do not show any knowledge ⌞about it⌟?
3Brace yourself like a man!
I will ask you, and you will teach me.
The LORD Speaks about Creation
4“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?
Tell me if you have ⌞such⌟ insight.
5Who determined its dimensions?
Certainly, you know!
Who stretched a measuring line over it?
6On what were its footings sunk?
Who laid its cornerstone
7when the morning stars sang together
and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8“Who shut the sea behind gates
when it burst through and came out of the womb,
9when I clothed it with clouds
and wrapped it up in dark clouds,
10when I set a limit for it
and put up bars and gates,
11when I said, ‘You may come this far but no farther.
Here your proud waves will stop’?
12“Have you ever given orders to the morning
or assigned a place for the dawn
13so that it could grab the earth by its edges
and shake wicked people out of it?
14The earth changes like clay stamped by a seal,
and ⌞parts of it⌟ stand out like ⌞folds in⌟ clothing.
15Wicked people are deprived of their light,
and an arm raised ⌞in victory⌟ is broken.
16Have you gone to the springs in the sea
or walked through the valleys of the ocean depths?
17Have the gateways to death been revealed to you,
or have you seen the gateways to total darkness?
18Have you ⌞even⌟ considered how wide the earth is?
Tell me, if you know all of this!
19“What is the way to the place where light lives?
Where is the home of darkness
20so that you may lead it to its territory,
so that you may know the path to its home?
21You must know because you were born then
and have lived such a long time!
22Have you been to the warehouses where snow is stored
or seen the warehouses for hail
23that I have stored up for the time of trouble,
for the day of battle and war?
24Which is the way to the place where light is scattered
and the east wind is spread across the earth?
25“Who made a channel for the flooding rains
and a path for the thunderstorms
26to bring rain on a land where no one lives,
on a desert where there are no humans,
27to saturate the desolate wasteland
in order to make it sprout with grass?
28Does the rain have a father?
Who gave birth to the dewdrops?
29From whose womb came the ice,
and who has given birth to the frost in the air?
30The water hardens like a stone,
and the surface of the ocean freezes over.
31“Can you connect the chains of the ⌞constellation⌟ Pleiades
or untie the ropes of Orion?
32Can you bring out the constellations at the right time
or guide Ursa Major with its cubs?
33Do you know the laws of the sky
or make them rule the earth?
34Can you call to the clouds
and have a flood of water cover you?
35Can you send lightning flashes so that they may go and say to you,
‘Here we are’?
36Who put wisdom in the heart
or gave understanding to the mind?
37Who is wise enough to count the clouds
or pour out the water jars of heaven
38when the dirt hardens into clumps
and the soil clings together?
The Lioness
39“Can you hunt prey for the lioness
and satisfy the hunger of her cubs
40as they crouch in their dens
and lie ready to ambush from their lairs?
The Crow
41“Who provides food for the crow
when its young ones cry to God
and wander around in need of 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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