Job 38 — GNV
38Verse 1Then answered the Lord vnto Iob out of the whirle winde, and said,Verse 2Who is this that darkeneth the counsell by wordes without knowledge?Verse 3Girde vp nowe thy loynes like a man: I will demande of thee and declare thou vnto me.Verse 4Where wast thou when I layd the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast vnderstanding,Verse 5Who hath layde the measures thereof, if thou knowest, or who hath stretched the line ouer it:Verse 6Whereupon are the foundations thereof set: or who layed the corner stone thereof:Verse 7When the starres of the morning praysed me together, and all the children of God reioyced:Verse 8Or who hath shut vp the Sea with doores, when it yssued and came foorth as out of the wombe:Verse 9When I made the cloudes as a couering thereof, and darkenesse as the swadeling bands thereof:Verse 10When I stablished my commandement vpon it, and set barres and doores,Verse 11And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall it stay thy proude waues.Verse 12Hast thou commanded the morning since thy dayes? hast thou caused the morning to knowe his place,Verse 13That it might take hold of the corners of the earth, and that the wicked might be shaken out of it?Verse 14It is turned as clay to facion, and all stand vp as a garment.Verse 15And from the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the hie arme shalbe broken.Verse 16Hast thou entred into the bottomes of the sea? or hast thou walked to seeke out the depth?Verse 17Haue the gates of death bene opened vnto thee? or hast thou seene the gates of the shadowe of death?Verse 18Hast thou perceiued the breadth of the earth? tell if thou knowest all this.Verse 19Where is the way where light dwelleth? and where is the place of darkenesse,Verse 20That thou shouldest receiue it in the boundes thereof, and that thou shouldest knowe the paths to the house thereof?Verse 21Knewest thou it, because thou wast then borne, and because the nomber of thy dayes is great?Verse 22Hast thou entred into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seene the treasures of ye haile,Verse 23Which I haue hid against the time of trouble, against the day of warre and battell?Verse 24By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the East winde vpon the earth?Verse 25Who hath deuided the spowtes for the raine? or the way for the lightning of ye thunders,Verse 26To cause it to raine on the earth where no man is, and in the wildernes where there is no man?Verse 27To fulfil the wilde and waste place, and to cause the bud of the herbe to spring forth?Verse 28Who is the father of the rayne? or who hath begotten the droppes of the dewe?Verse 29Out of whose wombe came the yee? who hath ingendred the frost of the heauen?Verse 30The waters are hid as with a stone: and the face of the depth is frosen.Verse 31Canst thou restraine the sweete influences of the Pleiades? or loose the bandes of Orion?Verse 32Canst thou bring foorth Mazzaroth in their time? canst thou also guide Arcturus with his sonnes?Verse 33Knowest thou the course of heauen, or canst thou set the rule thereof in the earth?Verse 34Canst thou lift vp thy voice to the cloudes that the aboundance of water may couer thee?Verse 35Canst thou sende the lightenings that they may walke, and say vnto thee, Loe, heere we are?Verse 36Who hath put wisedome in the reines? or who hath giuen the heart vnderstanding?Verse 37Who can nomber cloudes by wisedome? or who can cause to cease the bottels of heaue,Verse 38When the earth groweth into hardnesse, and the clottes are fast together?