LITV - Job - 38

38:1  And Jehovah answered Job out of the tempest and said:

38:2  Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

38:3  Now gird up your loins like a man, for I will question you; and you teach Me.

38:4  Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare if you know understanding.

38:5  Who has set its measurements, for you know? Or who has stretched a line on it?

38:6  On what were its bases sunk? Or who cast its cornerstone,

38:7  when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

38:8  Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it burst out; it came forth from the womb?

38:9  When I made the clouds to clothe it, and darkness its navel-band;

38:10  and I broke My limit on it, and set bars and doors;

38:11  and I said, You shall come to here, but no further; and here your proud waves shall be set?

38:12  Have you commanded the morning from your days, and caused the dawn to know its place,

38:13  that it might take hold of the wings of the earth; that the wicked might be shaken out of it?

38:14  It is turned like clay under a seal; and they stand out like a garment.

38:15  And their light is withheld from the wicked, and the high arm shall be broken.

38:16  Have you gone to the springs of the sea; or have you walked in searching of the deep?

38:17  Have death's gates been opened to you; or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

38:18  Have you comprehended the breadth of the earth? Declare, if you know it all!

38:19  Where is this, the way light dwells; and where is the place of darkness,

38:20  that you should take it to its boundary, and that you should perceive the paths to its house?

38:21  You know, for then you were born, and the number of your days is great.

38:22  Have you entered into the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,

38:23  which I have reserved for the time of distress for the day of battle and war?

38:24  How is it, the way the light is distributed; and how does the east wind spread itself on the earth?

38:25  Who has cut a channel for the flood; or a way for the thunderclaps,

38:26  to make rain fall on the earth where no man is , a wilderness and no man in it;

38:27  to satisfy the waste and desolation, and to cause the source of grass to sprout?

38:28  Is there a father for the rain? Or who has given birth to the drops of dew?

38:29  From whose womb comes forth the ice; and the frost of the heavens, who fathered it;

38:30  the waters hidden like stone, and the face of the deep is captured?

38:31  Can you bind the bands of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?

38:32  Can you bring out the constellations in their season; or can you guide the Bear with its sons?

38:33  Do you know the limits of the heavens; can you establish their rulership on the earth?

38:34  Can you lift your voice to the clouds, so that floods of water may cover you?

38:35  Can you send lightnings, that they may go and say to you, Here we are ?

38:36  Who has put wisdom in the inward parts; or who has given understanding to the mind?

38:37  Who can by wisdom number the clouds or who can lay down the jars of the heavens,

38:38  when the dust is melted into hardness, and the clods cling fast together?

38:39  Will you hunt the prey for the lion, or fill the appetite of the young lions,

38:40  when they crouch in dens, and sit in the cover of their hiding place?

38:41  Who provides food for the raven, when its young ones cry to God and wander about without food?