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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Job 38
38
1And Jehovah answereth Job out of the whirlwind, and saith: —
2Who [is] this — darkening counsel, By words without knowledge?
3Gird, I pray thee, as a man, thy loins, And I ask thee, and cause thou Me to know.
4Where wast thou when I founded earth? Declare, if thou hast known understanding.
5Who placed its measures — if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched out upon it a line?
6On what have its sockets been sunk? Or who hath cast its corner-stone?
7In the singing together of stars of morning, And all sons of God shout for joy,
8And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out.
9In My making a cloud its clothing, And thick darkness its swaddling band,
10And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors,
11And say, ‘Hitherto come thou, and add not, And a command is placed On the pride of thy billows.’
12Hast thou commanded morning since thy days? Causest thou the dawn to know its place?
13To take hold on the skirts of the earth, And the wicked are shaken out of it,
14It turneth itself as clay of a seal And they station themselves as clothed.
15And withheld from the wicked is their light, And the arm lifted up is broken.
16Hast thou come in to springs of the sea? And in searching the deep Hast thou walked up and down?
17Revealed to thee were the gates of death? And the gates of death-shade dost thou see?
18Thou hast understanding, Even unto the broad places of earth! Declare — if thou hast known it all.
19Where [is] this — the way light dwelleth? And darkness, where [is] this — its place?
20That thou dost take it unto its boundary, And that thou dost understand The paths of its house.
21Thou hast known — for then thou art born And the number of thy days [are] many!
22Hast thou come in unto the treasure of snow? Yea, the treasures of hail dost thou see?
23That I have kept back for a time of distress, For a day of conflict and battle.
24Where [is] this, the way light is apportioned? It scattereth an east wind over the earth.
25Who hath divided for the flood a conduit? And a way for the lightning of the voices?
26To cause [it] to rain on a land — no man, A wilderness — no man in it.
27To satisfy a desolate and waste place, And to cause to shoot up The produce of the tender grass?
28Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
29From whose belly came forth the ice? And the hoar-frost of the heavens, Who hath begotten it?
30As a stone waters are hidden, And the face of the deep is captured.
31Dost thou bind sweet influences of Kimah? Or the attractions of Kesil dost thou open?
32Dost thou bring out Mazzaroth in its season? And Aysh for her sons dost thou comfort?
33Hast thou known the statutes of heaven? Or dost thou appoint Its dominion in the earth?
34Dost thou lift up to the cloud thy voice, And abundance of water doth cover thee?
35Dost thou send out lightnings, and they go And say unto thee, ‘Behold us?’
36Who hath put in the inward parts wisdom? Or who hath given To the covered part understanding?
37Who doth number the clouds by wisdom? And the bottles of the heavens, Who doth cause to lie down,
38In the hardening of dust into hardness, And clods cleave together?
39Dost thou hunt for a lion prey? And the desire of young lions fulfil?
40When they bow down in dens — Abide in a thicket for a covert?
41Who doth prepare for a raven his provision, When his young ones cry unto God? They wander without food.
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