Job 38 — LSV

38Verse 1And YHWH answers Job out of the whirlwind and says:^{Verse 2}“Who [is] this—darkening counsel, || By words without knowledge?^{Verse 3}Now gird your loins as a man, || And I ask you, and you cause Me to know.^{Verse 4}Where were you when I founded the earth? Declare, if you have known understanding.^{Verse 5}Who placed its measures—if you know? Or who has stretched out a line on it?^{Verse 6}On what have its sockets been sunk? Or who has cast its cornerstone—^{Verse 7}In the singing together of [the] stars of morning, || When all [the] sons of God shout for joy?^{Verse 8}And He shuts up the sea with doors, || In its coming forth, it goes out from the womb.^{Verse 9}In My making a cloud its clothing, || And thick darkness its swaddling band,^{Verse 10}And I measure My statute over it, || And place bar and doors,^{Verse 11}And say, To here you come, and no more, || And a command is placed || On the pride of your billows.^{Verse 12}Have you commanded morning since your days? Do you cause the dawn to know its place?^{Verse 13}To take hold on the skirts of the earth, || And the wicked are shaken out of it,^{Verse 14}It turns itself as clay of a seal || And they station themselves as clothed.^{Verse 15}And their light is withheld from the wicked, || And the arm lifted up is broken.^{Verse 16}Have you come to springs of the sea? And in searching the deep || Have you walked up and down?^{Verse 17}Were the gates of death revealed to you? And do you see the gates of death-shade?^{Verse 18}You have understanding, || Even to the broad places of earth! Declare—if you have known it all.^{Verse 19}Where [is] this—the way light dwells? And darkness, where [is] this—its place?^{Verse 20}That you take it to its boundary, || And that you understand the paths of its house.^{Verse 21}You have known—for then you are born, || And the number of your days [are] many!^{Verse 22}Have you come to the treasure of snow? Indeed, do you see the treasures of hail,^{Verse 23}That I have kept back for a time of distress, || For a day of conflict and battle?^{Verse 24}Where [is] this, the way light is apportioned? It scatters an east wind over the earth.^{Verse 25}Who has divided a conduit for the flood? And a way for the lightning of the voices?^{Verse 26}To cause [it] to rain on a land [with] no man, || A wilderness [with] no man in it.^{Verse 27}To satisfy a desolate and ruined place, || And to cause to shoot up || The produce of the tender grass?^{Verse 28}Does the rain have a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?^{Verse 29}From whose belly came forth the ice? And the hoarfrost of the heavens, || Who has begotten it?^{Verse 30}Waters are hidden as a stone, || And the face of the deep is captured.^{Verse 31}Do you bind the chains of the Pleiades? Or do you open the cords of Orion?^{Verse 32}Do you bring out the twelve signs in [their] season? And do you comfort the Great Bear over her sons?^{Verse 33}Have you known the statutes of the heavens? Or do you appoint || Its dominion in the earth?^{Verse 34}Do you lift up your voice to the cloud, || And abundance of water covers you?^{Verse 35}Do you send out lightnings, and they go || And say to you, Behold us?^{Verse 36}Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the covered part?^{Verse 37}Who numbers the clouds by wisdom? And the bottles of the heavens, || Who causes to lie down,^{Verse 38}In the hardening of dust into hardness, || And clods cleave together?^{Verse 39}Do you hunt prey for a lion? And fulfill the desire of young lions?^{Verse 40}When they bow down in dens—Abide in a thicket for a covert?^{Verse 41}Who prepares for a raven his provision, || When his young ones cry to God? They wander without food.”