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Job|38:1|-||a|Then Jehovah |1|answered Job out of the whirlwind and said,
Job|38:2|-|Who is this who darkens counselBy words without |a|knowledge?
Job|38:3|-||a|Gird up now your loins like a mighty man;For I will ask of you, and you shall inform Me.
Job|38:4|-||1|Where were you when I laid the |2a|foundations of the earth?Tell Me, if you have understanding.
Job|38:5|-|Who set its measurements—if you know?Or who stretched the measuring line over it?
Job|38:6|-|Onto what were its bases sunk,Or who laid its cornerstone,
Job|38:7|-|When the |1|morning |a|stars sang togetherAnd all the |1b|sons of God shouted for joy?
Job|38:8|-|And who hedged in the |a|sea with doorsWhen it burst forth, issuing from the womb,
Job|38:9|-|When I made clouds its clothingAnd deep |a|darkness its swaddling clothes,
Job|38:10|-|And I broke out My |a|boundaries for itAnd set up bars and doors,
Job|38:11|-|And I said, To here you shall come and no farther,And here shall your proud |a|waves be stopped?
Job|38:12|-|Have you ever commanded the morning since your days began?Have you ever caused the dawn to know its place,
Job|38:13|-|So that it might take hold of the ends of the earth,And the wicked might be shaken out of it?
Job|38:14|-||1|The earth is changed like clay under a seal,And |2|all things on it stand forth like a garment.
Job|38:15|-|And from the wicked their light is withheld,And the high arm is broken.
Job|38:16|-|Have you entered into the springs of the |a|sea,Or have you walked about in the recesses of the |b|deep?
Job|38:17|-|Have the |a|gates of death been revealed to you,Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Job|38:18|-|Have you comprehended the full expanse of the earth?Declare it, if you know it all.
Job|38:19|-|Where is the way to the dwelling of the light?And the darkness, where is its place,
Job|38:20|-|That you may take it to its boundary,And that you may perceive the paths to its house?
Job|38:21|-|You know, for you were born then,And the number of your days is great.
Job|38:22|-|Have you entered into the storehouses of the snow,Or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
Job|38:23|-||a|Which I have reserved for the day of calamity,For the day of battle and of war?
Job|38:24|-|Where is the way to the place where the light is divided,To the place where the east wind scatters upon the earth?
Job|38:25|-|Who cut a channel for the rain torrent,Or a way for the thunderbolt,
Job|38:26|-|To make it |a|rain on a land where no man is,On a wilderness in which there is no man;
Job|38:27|-|To satisfy the waste and desolate landAnd to cause the shoots of |a|grass to sprout?
Job|38:28|-|Does the rain have a father?Or who begot the drops of dew?
Job|38:29|-|From whose womb does the |a|ice come forth?And the frost of heaven, who gave birth to it?
Job|38:30|-|The waters hide themselves and become like stone,And the surface of the deep is frozen.
Job|38:31|-|Can you fasten the bands of the |a|Pleiades,Or loosen the cords of Orion?
Job|38:32|-|Can you lead forth the |1|Mazzaroth in their season?Or can you guide the Bear with its cubs?
Job|38:33|-|Do you know the laws of the heavens?Do you establish their |a|rule on the earth?
Job|38:34|-|Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,So that a flood of water would cover you?
Job|38:35|-|Can you send forth lightnings, so that they would goAnd say to you, Here we are?
Job|38:36|-|Who has put |a|wisdom in the inward parts,Or given understanding to the |1|mind?
Job|38:37|-|Who can number the clouds by wisdom,Or who can tip over the water jars of heaven,
Job|38:38|-|When the dust runs into a massAnd the clods stick together?
Job|38:39|-|Can you hunt prey for the lioness,Or satisfy the appetite of the young |a|lions,
Job|38:40|-|When they crouch in their dens,When they lie in wait in the thicket?
Job|38:41|-|Who provides for the |a|raven its preyWhen its young ones cry out to God
And wander about for lack of food?
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