Job Chapter 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?