Noyes - Job - 38

38:1  Then spake Jehovah to Job out of the whirlwind, and said:

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

38:3  Gird up thy loins like a man! I will ask thee, and answer thou me!

38:4  Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding!

38:5  Who fixed its dimensions, that thou shouldst know it! Or who stretched out the line upon it?

38:6  Upon what were its foundations fixed? And who laid its corner-stone,

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

38:8  And who shut up the sea with doors, When it burst forth as from the womb?

38:9  When I made the clouds its mantle, And thick darkness its swaddling-band;

38:10  When I appointed for it my bound, And fixed for it bars and doors;

38:11  And said, Thus far shalt thou come, and no farther, And here shall thy proud waves be stayed!

38:12  Hast thou, in thy life, given charge to the morning, Or caused the day-spring to know its place,

38:13  That it should lay hold of the ends of the earth, And shake the wicked out of it?

38:14  It is changed as clay by the seal; And all things stand forth as in rich apparel.

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

38:16  Hast thou visited the springs of the sea, And walked through the recesses of the deep?

38:17  Have the gates of death been disclosed to thee, And hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?

38:18  Hast thou surveyed the breadth of the earth? Declare, if thou knowest it all!

38:19  Where is the way to the abode of light? And darkness—where is its dwelling-place?

38:20  That thou shouldst lead it to its boundary, And that thou shouldst know the paths to its mansion!

38:21  Surely thou knowest; for thou wast then born! And the number of thy years is great!

38:22  Hast thou visited the storehouses of the snow, Or seen the treasuries of the hail,

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

38:24  What is the way to where light is distributed, And the east wind spread abroad upon the earth?

38:25  Who hath prepared channels for the rain, And a path for the thunder-flash,

38:26  To give rain to the land without an inhabitant, To the wilderness wherein is no man;

38:27  To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, And cause the tender herb to spring forth?

38:28  Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of the dew?

38:29  Out of whose womb came the ice? And who hath gendered the hoar-frost of heaven?

38:30  The waters are hid as under stone, And the face of the deep becometh solid.

38:31  Canst thou fasten the bands of the Pleiades, Or loosen the chains of Orion?

38:32  Canst thou lead forth the Signs in their season, Or guide the Bear with her sons?

38:33  Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens? Hast thou appointed their dominion over the earth?

38:34  Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, So that abundance of waters will cover thee?

38:35  Canst thou send forth lightnings, so that they will go, And say to thee, "Here we are"?

38:36  Who hath put understanding in the reins, And given intelligence to the mind?

38:37  Who numbereth the clouds in wisdom? And who poureth out the bottles of heaven,

38:38  When the dust floweth into a molten mass, And the clods cleave fast together?

38:39  Canst thou hunt prey for the lioness, Or satisfy the hunger of the young lions,

38:40  When they couch in their dens, And lie in wait in the thicket?

38:41  Who provideth for the raven his food, When his young ones cry unto God, While they wander about without food?