AB - Job - 38

38:1  And after Elihu had ceased from speaking, the Lord spoke to Job through the whirlwind and clouds, saying,

38:2  Who is this that hides counsel from Me, and confines words in his heart, and thinks to conceal them from Me?

38:3  Gird your loins like a man, and I will ask you, and you shall answer Me!

38:4  Where were you when I founded the earth? Tell me now, if you have knowledge.

38:5  Who set the measures of it, if you know? Or who stretched a line upon it?

38:6  On what are its rings fastened? And who is He that laid the cornerstone upon it?

38:7  When the stars were made, all My angels praised Me with a loud voice.

38:8  And I shut up the sea with gates, when it rushed out, coming forth out its mother's womb.

38:9  And I made a cloud its clothing, and swathed it in mist.

38:10  And I set bounds to it, surrounding it with bars and gates.

38:11  And I said to it, To this point you shall come, but you shall not go beyond, but your waves shall be confined within you.

38:12  Or did I order the morning light in your time; and did the morning star then first see his appointed place;

38:13  to lay hold of the extremities of the earth, to cast out the ungodly out of it?

38:14  Or did you take the clay of the ground, and form a living creature with it, and set it with the power of speech upon the earth?

38:15  Have you removed light from the ungodly, and crushed the arm of the proud?

38:16  Or have you gone to the source of the sea, and walked in the tracks of the deep?

38:17  And do the gates of death open to you out of fear; and did the porters of hell quake when they saw you?

38:18  And have you been instructed in the breadth of the whole earth under heaven? Tell me now, what is the extent of it?

38:19  And in what land does the light dwell? And where is the place of darkness?

38:20  If you could bring Me to their uttermost boundaries, and if also you know their paths;

38:21  I know then that you were born at that time, and the number of your years is great.

38:22  But have you gone to the treasures of snow? And have you seen the treasures of hail?

38:23  And is there a store of them, for you against the time of your enemies, for the day of wars and battle?

38:24  And from where proceeds the frost? Or where is the south wind dispersed over the whole world under heaven?

38:25  And who prepared a course for the violent rain, and a way for the thunders;

38:26  to rain upon the land where there is no man, the wilderness, where there is not a man in it; so as to feed the untrodden and uninhabited land,

38:27  and cause it to send forth a crop of green herbs?

38:28  Who is the rain's father? And who has generated the drops of dew?

38:29  And out of whose womb comes the ice? And who has produced the frost in the sky,

38:30  which descends like flowing water? Who has terrified the face of the ungodly?

38:31  And do you understand the band of Pleiades, and have you opened the barrier of Orion?

38:32  Or will you reveal Mazuroth in his season, and the evening star with his rays? Will you guide them?

38:33  Do you know the changes of heaven, or the events which take place together under heaven?

38:34  And will you call a cloud by your voice, and will it obey you with a violent shower of much rain?

38:35  And will you send lightnings, and they shall go? And shall they say to you, What is your pleasure?

38:36  And who has given to women skill in weaving, or knowledge of embroidery?

38:37  And who is he that numbers the clouds in wisdom, and has bowed the heaven down to the earth?

38:38  For it is spread out as dusty earth, and I have cemented it as one hewn stone to another.

38:39  And will you hunt a prey for the lions? And satisfy the desires of the serpents?

38:40  For they fear in their lairs, crouching, and lying in wait in the woods.

38:41  And who has prepared food for the raven? For its young ones wander and cry to the Lord, in search of food.