Job38:1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind:
Job38:2 "Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
Job38:3 Gird up your loins like a man, I will question you, and you shall declare to me.
Job38:4 "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.
Job38:5 Who determined its measurements-- surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it?
Job38:6 On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone
Job38:7 when the morning stars sang together and all the heavenly beings shouted for joy?
Job38:8 "Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb?--
Job38:9 when I made the clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band,
Job38:10 and prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors,
Job38:11 and said, 'Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stopped'?
Job38:12 "Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place,
Job38:13 so that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?
Job38:14 It is changed like clay under the seal, and it is dyed like a garment.
Job38:15 Light is withheld from the wicked, and their uplifted arm is broken.
Job38:16 "Have you entered into the springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep?
Job38:17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
Job38:18 Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth? Declare, if you know all this.
Job38:19 "Where is the way to the dwelling of light, and where is the place of darkness,
Job38:20 that you may take it to its territory and that you may discern the paths to its home?
Job38:21 Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!
Job38:22 "Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
Job38:23 which I have reserved for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war?
Job38:24 What is the way to the place where the light is distributed, or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?
Job38:25 "Who has cut a channel for the torrents of rain, and a way for the thunderbolt,
Job38:26 to bring rain on a land where no one lives, on the desert, which is empty of human life,
Job38:27 to satisfy the waste and desolate land, and to make the ground put forth grass?
Job38:28 "Has the rain a father, or who has begotten the drops of dew?
Job38:29 From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who has given birth to the hoarfrost of heaven?
Job38:30 The waters become hard like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
Job38:31 "Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, or loose the cords of Orion?
Job38:32 Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season, or can you guide the Bear with its children?
Job38:33 Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish their rule on the earth?
Job38:34 "Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, so that a flood of waters may cover you?
Job38:35 Can you send forth lightnings, so that they may go and say to you, 'Here we are'?
Job38:36 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts, or given understanding to the mind?
Job38:37 Who has the wisdom to number the clouds? Or who can tilt the waterskins of the heavens,
Job38:38 when the dust runs into a mass and the clods cling together?
Job38:39 "Can you hunt the prey for the lion, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
Job38:40 when they crouch in their dens, or lie in wait in their covert?
Job38:41 Who provides for the raven its prey, when its young ones cry to God, and wander about for lack of food?