Job 38

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

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