UKJV - Job - 38

38:1  Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

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

38:3  Gird up now your loins like a man; for I will demand of you, and answer you me.

38:4  Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if you have understanding.

38:5  Who has laid the measures thereof, if you know? or who has stretched the line upon it?

38:6  Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;

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 brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

38:9  When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it,

38:10  And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,

38:11  And said, Until now shall you come, but no further: and here shall your proud waves be stayed?

38:12  Have you commanded the morning since your days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;

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

38:14  It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.

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

38:16  Have you entered into the springs of the sea? or have you walked in the search of the depth?

38:17  Have the gates of death been opened unto you? or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?

38:18  Have you perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if you know it all.

38:19  Where is the way where light dwells? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

38:20  That you should take it to the bound thereof, and that you should know the paths to the house thereof?

38:21  Know you it, because you were then born? or because the number of your days is great?

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

38:23  Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

38:24  By what way is the light parted, which scatters the east wind upon the earth?

38:25  Who has divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;

38:26  To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;

38:27  To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

38:28  Has the rain a father? or who has begotten the drops of dew?

38:29  Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who has gendered it?

38:30  The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

38:31  Can you bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

38:32  Can you bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or can you guide Arcturus with his sons?

38:33  Know you the ordinances of heaven? can you set the dominion thereof in the earth?

38:34  Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you?

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

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

38:37  Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,

38:38  When the dust grows into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?

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

38:40  When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?

38:41  Who provides for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of food.