Job, Chapter 38:

Verses from Job, Chapter 38 of the book of Job in the Bible.

The Lord speaks

• 1. Then the Lord answered Job out of the storm and said:
• 2. “Who is this that obscures my counsel with words without knowledge?
• 3. Prepare like a simple mortal; I will ask you questions, and you will answer me.
• 4.”Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you are so wise.
• 5. Who determined your measurements, if you know? Who stretched the line over her?
• 6. What are its foundations based on? Who laid its cornerstone,
• 7. when the morning stars sang together and all the children of God shouted for joy?
• 8. “Who closed the sea with doors, when it burst out of the mother's womb,
• 9. when I clothed him with clouds and shrouded him in thick darkness,
• 10. when I set limits for him and placed doors and barriers for him,
• 11. when he said to him, 'You can come this far, and no further; here shall its proud waves be broken'?
• 12. “Have you ever given orders in the morning? He showed the dawn his place,
• 13. so that she could catch the earth by its ends and shake off the wicked from it?
• 14. The earth is transformed like clay under the seal; everything about it appears as if it were a garment.
• 15. Light is withheld from the wicked, and the uplifted arm is broken.
• 16. “Have you ever penetrated to the sources of the sea or traversed the recesses of the abyss?
• 17. Have the doors of death been revealed to you? Have you ever seen the doors of dense darkness?
• 18. Do you have any idea how vast the expanses of the earth are? Tell me, if you know.
• 19. “Where does the path where the light lives go? And where is the place of darkness,
• 20. so that you can take them to your territories, and so that you can know the way to their home?
• 21. Of course you know, after all you were already born! You have lived many years!
• 22. “Have you ever entered the storehouses of snow or seen the storehouses of hail,
• 23. what do I keep for times of trouble, for days of war and combat?
• 24. What is the path along which the rays are distributed? Where do the east winds spread over the land?
• 25. .Who opened a channel for the torrential rain, and a path for the storm
• 26. so that it may rain in lands where there is no one, in the desert where there are no human beings,
• 27. to satisfy a dry land and make it fertile by making grass grow on it?
• 28. Does rain have a father? Who gives birth to the dewdrops?
• 29. From which belly does ice come? And who gives birth to frost
• 30. when the waters become hard as stone, and the surface of the abyss freezes?
• 31. “Can you bind the Pleiades with chains? Or loosen Orion's strings?
• 32. Are you able to make the constellations arise in due time or guide the Big Dipper with her cubs?
• 33. Do you know the laws of heaven? Can you establish your dominion over the earth?
• 34. “Can you lift your voice to the clouds and cover yourself with a flood?
• 35. Who sends the thunderbolts, so that they depart and say, 'We are here'?
• 36. Who gave wisdom to the heart and understanding to the mind?
• 37. Who has the discernment to count the clouds? Who can pour out the pitchers of heaven,
• 38. when the dust clumps together and the clods of earth come together?
• 39. “You hunt prey for the lioness and satisfy the cubs’ hunger
• 40. when they crouch in their holes or lie in wait in the thicket?
• 41. Who provides food for the crow when its young cry to God and wander for lack of food?

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