Job 38 — TOJB

38Verse 1Then Hashem answered Iyov out of the whirlwind,
and said,^{Verse 2}Who is this that darkeneth etzah (counsel)
with words without da'as?
^{Verse 3}Gird up now thy loins like a gever;
for I will ask of thee, and thou wilt answer Me.
^{Verse 4}Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of eretz?
Tell, if thou hast binah.
^{Verse 5}Who hath drafted the dimensions thereof, if thou hast da'as?
Or who hath stretched a measuring line across it?
^{Verse 6}Whereupon are the foundations thereof set?
Or who laid the even-pinnah (cornerstone) thereof,
^{Verse 7}When the kokhvei boker sang together,
and all the Bnei Elohim shouted for joy?
^{Verse 8}Or who shut up the yam behind doors?
Who brought it forth, issuing out of the rekhem (womb),
^{Verse 9}When I made the anan the garment thereof,
and thick darkness its swaddling band,
^{Verse 10}And fixed bounds for it,
and set bars and dlatot (doors),
^{Verse 11}And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further;
and poh (here) shall thy proud waves be stopped?^{Verse 12}Hast thou commanded the boker since thy yamim began;
or caused the shachar (dawn) to know its place;
^{Verse 13}That it might seize the ends of ha'aretz,
that the resha'im be shaken out of it?
^{Verse 14}It is changed like chomer (clay) under the khotam (seal);
and they stand out like a garment.
^{Verse 15}And from the resha'im their ohr is denied,
and the upraised zero'a shall be broken.
^{Verse 16}Hast thou entered into the springs of the yam?
Or hast thou walked in the recesses of the tehom?
^{Verse 17}Have the sha'arei mavet been disclosed unto thee?
Or hast thou seen the sha'arei tzalmavet?
^{Verse 18}Hast thou perceived the expanse of eretz?
Tell Me if thou hast da'as of it all.^{Verse 19}Where is the derech where ohr dwelleth?
And as for choshech, where is the place thereof,
^{Verse 20}That thou shouldest take it to its border,
and that thou shouldest have da'as of the paths to its bais?
^{Verse 21}Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born?
Or because the mispar of thy yamim is so great?^{Verse 22}Hast thou entered into the otzrot (storehouses) of the snow?
Or hast thou seen the otzrot of barad (hail),
^{Verse 23}Which I have reserved for the time of tzar,
for the yom kerav (battle) and milchamah (war)?^{Verse 24}Which is the derech where the ohr is distributed,
where is scattered the east wind upon eretz?
^{Verse 25}Who hath cut a channel for the overflowing of waters,
or a derech for the lightning of thunder,
^{Verse 26}To cause it to rain on eretz, where lo ish is;
on midbar, wherein there is lo adam;
^{Verse 27}To saturate a desolate and waste ground;
and to cause the bud of the desheh to spring forth?
^{Verse 28}Hath the rain an av?
Or who hath begotten the drops of tal (dew)?
^{Verse 29}Out of whose beten cometh the ice?
And the frost of Shomayim, who giveth birth to it?
^{Verse 30}The mayim harden like even (stone),
and the face of tehom is frozen.^{Verse 31}Canst thou bind the chains of the Pleiades,
or loose the bonds of Orion?
^{Verse 32}Canst thou bring forth Mazzarot in their times?
Or canst thou guide the Bear with its banim?
^{Verse 33}Knowest thou the chukkot of Shomayim?
Canst thou set the rule over ha'aretz?
^{Verse 34}Canst thou lift up thy kol (voice) to the clouds,
that abundance of mayim may cover thee?
^{Verse 35}Canst thou send lightning bolts, that they may go
and say unto thee, Hineinu (here we are)?
^{Verse 36}Who hath put chochmah in the inward parts,
or who hath given binah to the mind?^{Verse 37}Who can number the clouds in chochmah,
or who can tip the waterskins of Shomayim,
^{Verse 38}When the dust hardens into a clump,
and the clods cleave fast together?
^{Verse 39}Wilt thou hunt the teref for the lioness,
or fill the appetite of her whelps,
^{Verse 40}When they crouch in their me'onot (dens),
and abide in the lair to lie in ambush?
^{Verse 41}Who provideth for the raven his food?
When his young ones cry unto El,
they wander about for lack of okhel.