Job 38

Verse 1. Then the Lord answered Job out of a whirlwind, and said:

Verse 2. Who is this that wrappeth up sentences in unskillful words?

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

Verse 4. Where wast thou when I laid up the foundations of the earth? tell me if thou hast understanding.

Verse 5. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?

Verse 6. Upon what are its bases grounded? or who laid the corner stone thereof,

Verse 7. When the morning stars praised me together, and all the sons of God made a joyful melody?

Verse 8. Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb:

Verse 9. When I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in a mist as in swaddling bands?

Verse 10. I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors:

Verse 11. And I said: Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and here thou shalt break thy swelling waves.

Verse 12. Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place?

Verse 13. And didst thou hold the extremities of the earth shaking them, and hast thou shaken the ungodly out of it?

Verse 14. The seal shall be restored as clay, and shall stand as a garment:

Verse 15. From the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the high arm shall be broken.

Verse 16. Hast thou entered into the depths of the sea, and walked in the lowest parts of the deep?

Verse 17. Have the gates of death been opened to thee, and hast thou seen the darksome doors?

Verse 18. Hast thou considered the breadth of the earth? tell me, if thou knowest all things?

Verse 19. Where is the way where light dwelleth, and where is the place of darkness:

Verse 20. That thou mayst bring every thing to its own bounds, and understand the paths of the house thereof.

Verse 21. Didst thou know then that thou shouldst be born? and didst thou know the number of thy days?

Verse 22. Hast thou entered into the storehouses of the snow, or has thou beheld the treasures of the hail:

Verse 23. Which I have prepared for the time of the enemy, against the day of battle and war?

Verse 24. By what way is the light spread, and heat divided upon the earth?

Verse 25. Who gave a course to violent showers, or a way for noisy thunder:

Verse 26. That it should rain on the earth without man in the wilderness, where no mortal dwelleth:

Verse 27. That it should fill the desert and desolate land, and should bring forth green grass?

Verse 28. Who is the father of rain? or who begot the drops of dew?

Verse 29. Out of whose womb came the ice; and the frost from heaven who hath gendered it?

Verse 30. The waters are hardened like a stone, and the surface of the deep is congealed.

Verse 31. Shalt thou be able to join together the shining stars the Pleiades, or canst thou stop the turning about of Arcturus?

Verse 32. Canst thou bring forth the day star in its time, and make the evening star to rise upon the children of the earth?

Verse 33. Dost thou know the order of heaven, and canst thou set down the reason thereof on the earth?

Verse 34. Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that an abundance of waters may cover thee?

Verse 35. Canst thou send lightnings, and will they go, and will they return and say to thee: Here we are?

Verse 36. Who hath put wisdom in the heart of man? or who gave the cock understanding?

Verse 37. Who can declare the order of the heavens, or who can make the harmony of heaven to sleep?

Verse 38. When was the dust poured on the earth, and the clods fastened together?

Verse 39. Wilt thou take the prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite of her whelps,

Verse 40. When they couch in the dens and lie in wait in holes?

Verse 41. Who provideth food for the raven, when her young ones cry to God, wandering about, because they have no meat?