Job - Chapter 38 | New International Version

  • 1. Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm. He said:
  • 2. Who is this that darkens my counsel with words without knowledge?
  • 3. Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me.
  • 4. Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand.
  • 5. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?
  • 6. On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone--
  • 7. while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?
  • 8. Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
  • 9. when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness,
  • 10. when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place,
  • 11. when I said, 'This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt'?
  • 12. Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place,
  • 13. that it might take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it?
  • 14. The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features stand out like those of a garment.
  • 15. The wicked are denied their light, and their upraised arm is broken.
  • 16. Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep?
  • 17. Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
  • 18. Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this.
  • 19. What is the way to the abode of light? And where does darkness reside?
  • 20. Can you take them to their places? Do you know the paths to their dwellings?
  • 21. Surely you know, for you were already born! You have lived so many years!
  • 22. Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail,
  • 23. which I reserve for times of trouble, for days of war and battle?
  • 24. What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed, or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?
  • 25. Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain, and a path for the thunderstorm,
  • 26. to water a land where no man lives, a desert with no one in it,
  • 27. to satisfy a desolate wasteland and make it sprout with grass?
  • 28. Does the rain have a father? Who fathers the drops of dew?
  • 29. From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens
  • 30. when the waters become hard as stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen?
  • 31. Can you bind the beautiful Pleiades? Can you loose the cords of Orion?
  • 32. Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear with its cubs?
  • 33. Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up God's dominion over the earth?
  • 34. Can you raise your voice to the clouds and cover yourself with a flood of water?
  • 35. Do you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, 'Here we are'?
  • 36. Who endowed the heart with wisdom or gave understanding to the mind?
  • 37. Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens
  • 38. when the dust becomes hard and the clods of earth stick together?
  • 39. Do you hunt the prey for the lioness and satisfy the hunger of the lions
  • 40. when they crouch in their dens or lie in wait in a thicket?
  • 41. Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?
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