| Job 38:1 |
Then Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind and said, |
| Job 38:2 |
Who is this who darkens counsel / By words without knowledge? |
| Job 38:3 |
Gird up now your loins like a mighty man; / For I will ask of you, and you shall inform Me. |
| Job 38:4 |
Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? / Tell [Me,] if you have understanding. |
| Job 38:5 |
Who set its measurements--if you know? / Or who stretched the measuring line over it? |
| Job 38:6 |
Onto what were its bases sunk, / Or who laid its cornerstone, |
| Job 38:7 |
When the morning stars sang together / And all the sons of God shouted for joy? |
| Job 38:8 |
And [who] hedged in the sea with doors / When it burst forth, issuing from the womb, |
| Job 38:9 |
When I made clouds its clothing / And deep darkness its swaddling clothes, |
| Job 38:10 |
And I broke out My boundaries for it / And set up bars and doors, |
| Job 38:11 |
And I said, To here you shall come and no farther, / And here shall your proud waves be stopped? |
| Job 38:12 |
Have you ever commanded the morning since your days [began?] / Have you ever caused the dawn to know its place, |
| Job 38:13 |
So that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, / And the wicked might be shaken out of it? |
| Job 38:14 |
The earth is changed like clay under a seal, / And all things on it stand forth like a garment. |
| Job 38:15 |
And from the wicked their light is withheld, / And the high arm is broken. |
| Job 38:16 |
Have you entered into the springs of the sea, / Or have you walked about in the recesses of the deep? |
| Job 38:17 |
Have the gates of death been revealed to you, / Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death? |
| Job 38:18 |
Have you comprehended the full expanse of the earth? / Declare [it,] if you know it all. |
| Job 38:19 |
Where is the way to the dwelling of the light? / And the darkness, where is its place, |
| Job 38:20 |
That you may take it to its boundary, / And that you may perceive the paths to its house? |
| Job 38:21 |
You know, for you were born then, / And the number of your days is great. |
| Job 38:22 |
Have you entered into the storehouses of the snow, / Or have you seen the storehouses of the hail, |
| Job 38:23 |
Which I have reserved for the day of calamity, / For the day of battle and of war? |
| Job 38:24 |
Where is the way to [the place where] the light is divided, / To [the place where] the east wind scatters upon the earth? |
| Job 38:25 |
Who cut a channel for the rain torrent, / Or a way for the thunderbolt, |
| Job 38:26 |
To make it rain on a land where no man is, / [On] a wilderness in which there is no man; |
| Job 38:27 |
To satisfy the waste and desolate land / And to cause the shoots of grass to sprout? |
| Job 38:28 |
Does the rain have a father? / Or who begot the drops of dew? |
| Job 38:29 |
From whose womb does the ice come forth? / And the frost of heaven, who gave birth to it? |
| Job 38:30 |
The waters hide themselves [and become] like stone, / And the surface of the deep is frozen. |
| Job 38:31 |
Can you fasten the bands of the Pleiades, / Or loosen the cords of Orion? |
| Job 38:32 |
Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season? / Or can you guide the Bear with its cubs? |
| Job 38:33 |
Do you know the laws of the heavens? / Do you establish their rule on the earth? |
| Job 38:34 |
Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, / So that a flood of water would cover you? |
| Job 38:35 |
Can you send forth lightnings, so that they would go / And say to you, Here we are? |
| Job 38:36 |
Who has put wisdom in the inward parts, / Or given understanding to the mind? |
| Job 38:37 |
Who can number the clouds by wisdom, / Or who can tip over the water jars of heaven, |
| Job 38:38 |
When the dust runs into a mass / And the clods stick together? |
| Job 38:39 |
Can you hunt prey for the lioness, / Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions, |
| Job 38:40 |
When they crouch in their dens, / [When] they lie in wait in the thicket? |
| Job 38:41 |
Who provides for the raven its prey / When its young ones cry out to God / [And] wander about for lack of food? |