Job-38

(New International Version)

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  • 1 The Lord Speaks Then the Lord spoke to Job out of the storm. He said:
  • 2 “Who is this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge?
  • 3 Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me.
  • 4 “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand.
  • 5 Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?
  • 6 On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone—
  • 7 while the morning stars sang together and all the angels 38:7 Hebrew the sons of God shouted for joy?
  • 8 “Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
  • 9 when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness,
  • 10 when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place,
  • 11 when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt’?
  • 12 “Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place,
  • 13 that it might take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it?
  • 14 The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features stand out like those of a garment.
  • 15 The wicked are denied their light, and their upraised arm is broken.
  • 16 “Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep?
  • 17 Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness?
  • 18 Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this.
  • 19 “What is the way to the abode of light? And where does darkness reside?
  • 20 Can you take them to their places? Do you know the paths to their dwellings?
  • 21 Surely you know, for you were already born! You have lived so many years!
  • 22 “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail,
  • 23 which I reserve for times of trouble, for days of war and battle?
  • 24 What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed, or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?
  • 25 Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain, and a path for the thunderstorm,
  • 26 to water a land where no one lives, an uninhabited desert,
  • 27 to satisfy a desolate wasteland and make it sprout with grass?
  • 28 Does the rain have a father? Who fathers the drops of dew?
  • 29 From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens
  • 30 when the waters become hard as stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen?
  • 31 “Can you bind the chains 38:31 Septuagint; Hebrew beauty of the Pleiades? Can you loosen Orion’s belt?
  • 32 Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons 38:32 Or the morning star in its season or lead out the Bear 38:32 Or out Leo with its cubs?
  • 33 Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up God’s 38:33 Or their dominion over the earth?
  • 34 “Can you raise your voice to the clouds and cover yourself with a flood of water?
  • 35 Do you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
  • 36 Who gives the ibis wisdom 38:36 That is, wisdom about the flooding of the Nile or gives the rooster understanding? 38:36 That is, understanding of when to crow; the meaning of the Hebrew for this verse is uncertain.
  • 37 Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens
  • 38 when the dust becomes hard and the clods of earth stick together?
  • 39 “Do you hunt the prey for the lioness and satisfy the hunger of the lions
  • 40 when they crouch in their dens or lie in wait in a thicket?
  • 41 Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?
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