38Job 38

1Then the Lord answered Job out of a whirlwind, and said:Select Job 38:1

2Who is this that wrappeth up sentences in unskilful words?Select Job 38:2

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

4Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? tell me if thou hast understanding.Select Job 38:4

5Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest or who hath stretched the line upon it?Select Job 38:5

6Upon what are its bases grounded? or who laid the corner stone thereof,Select Job 38:6

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

8Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb:Select Job 38:8

9When I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in a mist as in swaddling bands?Select Job 38:9

10I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors:Select Job 38:10

11And I said: Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and here thou shalt break thy swelling waves.Select Job 38:11

12Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place?Select Job 38:12

13And didst thou hold the extremities of the earth shaking them, and hast thou shaken the ungodly out of it?Select Job 38:13

14The seal shall be restored as clay, and shall stand as a garment.Select Job 38:14

15From the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the high arm shall be broken.Select Job 38:15

16Hast thou entered into the depths of the sea, and walked in the lowest parts of the deep?Select Job 38:16

17Have the gates of death been opened to thee, and hast thou seen the darksome doors?Select Job 38:17

18Hast thou considered the breadth of the earth? tell me, if thou knowest all things.Select Job 38:18

19Where is the way where light dwelleth, and where is the place of darkness?Select Job 38:19

20That thou mayst bring every thing to its own bounds, and understand the paths of the house thereof.Select Job 38:20

21Didst thou know then that thou shouldst be born? and didst thou know the number of thy days?Select Job 38:21

22Hast thou entered into the storehouses of the snow, or hast thou beheld the treasures of the hail:Select Job 38:22

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

24By what way is the light spread, and heat divided upon the earth?Select Job 38:24

25Who gave a course to violent showers, or a way for noisy thunder:Select Job 38:25

26That it should rain on the earth without man in the wilderness, where no mortal dwelleth:Select Job 38:26

27That it should fill the desert and desolate land, and should bring forth green grass?Select Job 38:27

28Who is the father of rain? or who begot the drops of dew?Select Job 38:28

29Out of whose womb came the ice? and the frost from heaven who hath gendered it?Select Job 38:29

30The waters are hardened like a stone, and the surface of the deep is congealed.Select Job 38:30

31Shalt thou be able to join together the shining stars the Pleiades, or canst thou stop the turning about of Arcturus?Select Job 38:31

32Canst thou bring forth the day star in its time, and make the evening star to rise upon the children of the earth?Select Job 38:32

33Dost thou know the order of heaven, and canst thou set down the reason thereof on the earth?Select Job 38:33

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

35Canst thou send lightnings, and will they go, and will they return and say to thee: Here we are?Select Job 38:35

36Who hath put wisdom in the heart of man? or who gave the cock understanding?Select Job 38:36

37Who can declare the order of the heavens, or who can make the harmony of heaven to sleep?Select Job 38:37

38When was the dust poured on the earth, and the clods fastened together?Select Job 38:38

39Wilt thou take the prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite of her whelps,Select Job 38:39

40When they couch in the dens and lie in wait in holes?Select Job 38:40

41Who provideth food for the raven, when her young ones cry to God, wandering about, because they have no meat?Select Job 38:41