The Book of Job

Chapter-38

Job 38:1 But the Lord, responding to Job from a whirlwind, said:

 

Job 38:2 Who is this that wraps sentences in unskilled words?

 

Job 38:3 Gird your waist like a man. I will question you, and you must answer me.

 

Job 38:4 Where were you, when I set the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.

 

Job 38:5 Who set its measurements, if you know, or who stretched a line over it?

 

Job 38:6 Upon what have its bases been grounded, and who set forth its cornerstone,

 

Job 38:7 when the morning stars praised me together, and all the sons of God made a joyful noise?

 

Job 38:8 Who enclosed the sea with doors, when it broke forth as if issuing from the womb,

 

Job 38:9 when I stationed a cloud as its garment and wrapped it in a mist as if swaddling an infant?

 

Job 38:10 I encircled it with my limits, and I positioned its bars and doors.

 

Job 38:11 And I said: “This far you will approach, and you will proceeded no further, and here you will break your swelling waves.”

 

Job 38:12 Did you, after your birth, command the birth of the sun and show the sunrise its place?

 

Job 38:13 And did you hold the extremities of the earth, shaking them, and have you shaken the impious out of it?

 

Job 38:14 The seal will be restored like clay, and it will remain in place like a garment.

 

Job 38:15 From the impious, the light will be taken away, and the exalted arm will be broken.

 

Job 38:16 Have you entered the depths of the sea, and have you taken a walk in the uttermost parts of the abyss?

 

Job 38:17 Have the gates of death been opened to you, and have you seen the doors of darkness?

 

Job 38:18 Have you considered the breadth of the earth? If you know all things, reveal them to me.

 

Job 38:19 Which is the way that holds the light, and which is the place of darkness?

 

Job 38:20 In this way, you might lead each thing to its final place, and understand the paths of its house.

 

Job 38:21 So then, did you know when you were to be born? And did you know the number of your days?

 

Job 38:22 Have you been admitted into the storehouses of the snows, and have you gazed upon the stockpile of the brimstone,

 

Job 38:23 which I have prepared for the time of the enemy, for the day of the battle and the war?

 

Job 38:24 In what way is the light scattered, and the heat distributed, over the earth?

 

Job 38:25 Who gave a course to the rainstorms, and a path to the resounding thunder,

 

Job 38:26 so that it would rain on the earth far from man, in the wilderness where no mortal lingers,

 

Job 38:27 so that it would fill impassable and desolate places, and would bring forth green plants?

 

Job 38:28 Who is the father of rain, or who conceived the drops of dew?

 

Job 38:29 From whose womb did the ice proceed, and who created the frost from the air?

 

Job 38:30 The waters are hardened to become like stone, and the surface of the abyss freezes over.

 

Job 38:31 Will you have the strength to join together the sparkling stars of the Pleiades, or are you able to disperse the circling of Arcturus?

 

Job 38:32 Can you bring forth the morning star, in its time, and make the evening star rise over the sons of the earth?

 

Job 38:33 Do you know the order of heaven, and can you explain its rules here on the earth?

 

Job 38:34 Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, so that an onslaught of waters will cover you?

 

Job 38:35 Can you send forth lightning bolts, and will they go, and on returning, say to you: “Here we are?”

 

Job 38:36 Who placed discernment in the guts of man, or who gave the rooster intelligence?

 

Job 38:37 Who can describe the rules of the heavens, or who can put to rest the harmony of heaven?

 

Job 38:38 When was the dust cast to become the earth, and when were its clods fastened together?

 

Job 38:39 Will you seize prey for the lioness, and will you sustain the lives of her young,

 

Job 38:40 as they rest in their dens or lie in wait in pits?

 

Job 38:41 Who provides the raven with its meal, when her chicks cry out to God, as they wander around because they have no food?