Job 38 — WEBC

38Verse 1Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind,^{Verse 2}“Who is this who darkens counselby words without knowledge?^{Verse 3}Brace yourself like a man,for I will question you, then you answer me!^{Verse 4}“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?Declare, if you have understanding.^{Verse 5}Who determined its measures, if you know?Or who stretched the line on it?^{Verse 6}What were its foundations fastened on?Or who laid its cornerstone,^{Verse 7}when the morning stars sang together,and all the sons of God shouted for joy?^{Verse 8}“Or who shut up the sea with doors,when it broke out of the womb,^{Verse 9}when I made clouds its garment,and wrapped it in thick darkness,^{Verse 10}marked out for it my bound,set bars and doors,^{Verse 11}and said, ‘You may come here, but no further.Your proud waves shall be stopped here’?^{Verse 12}“Have you commanded the morning in your days,and caused the dawn to know its place,^{Verse 13}that it might take hold of the ends of the earth,and shake the wicked out of it?^{Verse 14}It is changed as clay under the seal,and presented as a garment.^{Verse 15}From the wicked, their light is withheld.The high arm is broken.^{Verse 16}“Have you entered into the springs of the sea?Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?^{Verse 17}Have the gates of death been revealed to you?Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?^{Verse 18}Have you comprehended the earth in its width?Declare, if you know it all.^{Verse 19}“What is the way to the dwelling of light?As for darkness, where is its place,^{Verse 20}that you should take it to its bound,that you should discern the paths to its house?^{Verse 21}Surely you know, for you were born then,and the number of your days is great!^{Verse 22}Have you entered the storehouses of the snow,or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,^{Verse 23}which I have reserved against the time of trouble,against the day of battle and war?^{Verse 24}By what way is the lightning distributed,or the east wind scattered on the earth?^{Verse 25}Who has cut a channel for the flood water,or the path for the thunderstorm,^{Verse 26}to cause it to rain on a land where there is no man,on the wilderness, in which there is no man,^{Verse 27}to satisfy the waste and desolate ground,to cause the tender grass to grow?^{Verse 28}Does the rain have a father?Or who fathers the drops of dew?^{Verse 29}Whose womb did the ice come out of?Who has given birth to the gray frost of the sky?^{Verse 30}The waters become hard like stone,when the surface of the deep is frozen.^{Verse 31}“Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades,or loosen the cords of Orion?^{Verse 32}Can you lead the constellations out in their season?Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?^{Verse 33}Do you know the laws of the heavens?Can you establish its dominion over the earth?^{Verse 34}“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,that abundance of waters may cover you?^{Verse 35}Can you send out lightnings, that they may go?Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?^{Verse 36}Who has put wisdom in the inward parts?Or who has given understanding to the mind?^{Verse 37}Who can count the clouds by wisdom?Or who can pour out the containers of the sky,^{Verse 38}when the dust runs into a mass,and the clods of earth stick together?^{Verse 39}“Can you hunt the prey for the lioness,or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,^{Verse 40}when they crouch in their dens,and lie in wait in the thicket?^{Verse 41}Who provides for the raven his prey,when his young ones cry to God,
and wander for lack of food?