Geneva1599 - Job - 38

38:1  Then answered the Lord vnto Iob out of the whirle winde, and said,

38:2  Who is this that darkeneth the counsell by wordes without knowledge?

38:3  Girde vp nowe thy loynes like a man: I will demande of thee and declare thou vnto me.

38:4  Where wast thou when I layd the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast vnderstanding,

38:5  Who hath layde the measures thereof, if thou knowest, or who hath stretched the line ouer it:

38:6  Whereupon are the foundations thereof set: or who layed the corner stone thereof:

38:7  When the starres of the morning praysed me together, and all the children of God reioyced:

38:8  Or who hath shut vp the Sea with doores, when it yssued and came foorth as out of the wombe:

38:9  When I made the cloudes as a couering thereof, and darkenesse as the swadeling bands thereof:

38:10  When I stablished my commandement vpon it, and set barres and doores,

38:11  And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall it stay thy proude waues.

38:12  Hast thou commanded the morning since thy dayes? hast thou caused the morning to knowe his place,

38:13  That it might take hold of the corners of the earth, and that the wicked might be shaken out of it?

38:14  It is turned as clay to facion, and all stand vp as a garment.

38:15  And from the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the hie arme shalbe broken.

38:16  Hast thou entred into the bottomes of the sea? or hast thou walked to seeke out the depth?

38:17  Haue the gates of death bene opened vnto thee? or hast thou seene the gates of the shadowe of death?

38:18  Hast thou perceiued the breadth of the earth? tell if thou knowest all this.

38:19  Where is the way where light dwelleth? and where is the place of darkenesse,

38:20  That thou shouldest receiue it in the boundes thereof, and that thou shouldest knowe the paths to the house thereof?

38:21  Knewest thou it, because thou wast then borne, and because the nomber of thy dayes is great?

38:22  Hast thou entred into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seene the treasures of ye haile,

38:23  Which I haue hid against the time of trouble, against the day of warre and battell?

38:24  By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the East winde vpon the earth?

38:25  Who hath deuided the spowtes for the raine? or the way for the lightning of ye thunders,

38:26  To cause it to raine on the earth where no man is, and in the wildernes where there is no man?

38:27  To fulfil the wilde and waste place, and to cause the bud of the herbe to spring forth?

38:28  Who is the father of the rayne? or who hath begotten the droppes of the dewe?

38:29  Out of whose wombe came the yee? who hath ingendred the frost of the heauen?

38:30  The waters are hid as with a stone: and the face of the depth is frosen.

38:31  Canst thou restraine the sweete influences of the Pleiades? or loose the bandes of Orion?

38:32  Canst thou bring foorth Mazzaroth in their time? canst thou also guide Arcturus with his sonnes?

38:33  Knowest thou the course of heauen, or canst thou set the rule thereof in the earth?

38:34  Canst thou lift vp thy voice to the cloudes that the aboundance of water may couer thee?

38:35  Canst thou sende the lightenings that they may walke, and say vnto thee, Loe, heere we are?

38:36  Who hath put wisedome in the reines? or who hath giuen the heart vnderstanding?

38:37  Who can nomber cloudes by wisedome? or who can cause to cease the bottels of heaue,

38:38  When the earth groweth into hardnesse, and the clottes are fast together?