ACV - Job - 38

38:1  Then Jehovah 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 thy loins like a man, for I will demand of thee, and declare thou to me.

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

38:5  Who determined the measures of it, if thou know? Or who stretched the line upon it?

38:6  Upon what were the foundations of it fastened? Or who laid the cornerstone of it

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 broke forth, like it had issued out of the womb,

38:9  when I made clouds the garment of it, and thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,

38:10  and marked out for it my bound, and set bars and doors,

38:11  and said, This far thou shall come, but no farther, and here thy proud waves shall be stayed?

38:12  Have thou commanded the morning since thy days began, and caused the dayspring to know its place

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

38:14  It is changed as clay under the seal, and all things stand forth as a garment.

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

38:16  Have thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or have thou walked in the recesses of the deep?

38:17  Have the gates of death been revealed to thee? Or have thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?

38:18  Have thou comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if thou know it all.

38:19  Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is the place of it

38:20  that thou should take it to the bound of it, and that thou should discern the paths to the house of it?

38:21  Thou know, for thou were born then, and the number of thy days is great!

38:22  Have thou entered the treasuries of the snow, or have thou 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 divided, or the east wind scattered upon the earth?

38:25  Who has cleft a channel for the water flood, or the way for the lightning of the thunder,

38:26  to cause it to rain on a land where no man is, on the wilderness, in which there is no man,

38:27  to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, and to cause the tender grass 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 engendered it?

38:30  The waters hide themselves and become like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

38:31  Can thou bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

38:32  Can thou lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season? Or can thou guide the Bear with her train?

38:33  Do thou know the ordinances of the heavens? Can thou establish the dominion of it on the earth?

38:34  Can thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?

38:35  Can thou send forth lightnings, that they may go, and say to thee, 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 number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven

38:38  when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods cleave fast together?

38:39  Can thou hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy 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 prey when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?