Job - Chapter 38 | Good News Translation

  • 1. Then out of the storm the LORD spoke to Job.
  • 2. Who are you to question my wisdom with your ignorant, empty words?
  • 3. Now stand up straight and answer the questions I ask you.
  • 4. Were you there when I made the world? If you know so much, tell me about it.
  • 5. Who decided how large it would be? Who stretched the measuring line over it? Do you know all the answers?
  • 6. What holds up the pillars that support the earth? Who laid the cornerstone of the world?
  • 7. In the dawn of that day the stars sang together, and the heavenly beings shouted for joy.
  • 8. Who closed the gates to hold back the sea when it burst from the womb of the earth?
  • 9. It was I who covered the sea with clouds and wrapped it in darkness.
  • 10. I marked a boundary for the sea and kept it behind bolted gates.
  • 11. I told it, "So far and no farther! Here your powerful waves must stop."
  • 12. Job, have you ever in all your life commanded a day to dawn?
  • 13. Have you ordered the dawn to seize the earth and shake the wicked from their hiding places?
  • 14. Daylight makes the hills and valleys stand out like the folds of a garment, clear as the imprint of a seal on clay.
  • 15. The light of day is too bright for the wicked and restrains them from doing violence.
  • 16. Have you been to the springs in the depths of the sea? Have you walked on the floor of the ocean?
  • 17. Has anyone ever shown you the gates that guard the dark world of the dead?
  • 18. Have you any idea how big the world is? Answer me if you know.
  • 19. Do you know where the light comes from or what the source of darkness is?
  • 20. Can you show them how far to go, or send them back again?
  • 21. I am sure you can, because you're so old and were there when the world was made!
  • 22. Have you ever visited the storerooms, where I keep the snow and the hail?
  • 23. I keep them ready for times of trouble, for days of battle and war.
  • 24. Have you been to the place where the sun comes up, or the place from which the east wind blows?
  • 25. Who dug a channel for the pouring rain and cleared the way for the thunderstorm?
  • 26. Who makes rain fall where no one lives?
  • 27. Who waters the dry and thirsty land, so that grass springs up?
  • 28. Does either the rain or the dew have a father?
  • 29. Who is the mother of the ice and the frost,
  • 30. which turn the waters to stone and freeze the face of the sea?
  • 31. Can you tie the Pleiades together or loosen the bonds that hold Orion?
  • 32. Can you guide the stars season by season and direct the Big and the Little Dipper?
  • 33. Do you know the laws that govern the skies, and can you make them apply to the earth?
  • 34. Can you shout orders to the clouds and make them drench you with rain?
  • 35. And if you command the lightning to flash, will it come to you and say, "At your service"?
  • 36. Who tells the ibis when the Nile will flood, or who tells the rooster that rain will fall?
  • 37. Who is wise enough to count the clouds and tilt them over to pour out the rain,
  • 38. rain that hardens the dust into lumps?
  • 39. Do you find food for lions to eat, and satisfy hungry young lions
  • 40. when they hide in their caves, or lie in wait in their dens?
  • 41. Who is it that feeds the ravens when they wander about hungry, when their young cry to me for food?
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