Job Chapter 38

• Job 38:1
  Job.
• Job 38:2
  Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind,
• Job 38:3
  “Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
• Job 38:4
  Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me!
• Job 38:5
  “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.
• Job 38:6
  Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?
• Job 38:7
  What were its foundations fastened on? Or who laid its cornerstone,
• Job 38:8
  when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
• Job 38:9
  “Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,
• Job 38:10
  when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,
• Job 38:11
  marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,
• Job 38:12
  and said, ‘You may come here, but no further. Your proud waves shall be stopped here’?
• Job 38:13
  “Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place,
• Job 38:14
  that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?
• Job 38:15
  It is changed as clay under the seal, and presented as a garment.
• Job 38:16
  From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.
• Job 38:17
  “Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
• Job 38:18
  Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
• Job 38:19
  Have you comprehended the earth in its width? Declare, if you know it all.
• Job 38:20
  “What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,
• Job 38:21
  that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?
• Job 38:22
  Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!
• Job 38:23
  Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
• Job 38:24
  which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
• Job 38:25
  By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?
• Job 38:26
  Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm,
• Job 38:27
  to cause it to rain on a land where there is no man, on the wilderness, in which there is no man,
• Job 38:28
  to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to grow?
• Job 38:29
  Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?
• Job 38:30
  Whose womb did the ice come out of? Who has given birth to the gray frost of the sky?
• Job 38:31
  The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.
• Job 38:32
  “Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?
• Job 38:33
  Can you lead the constellations out in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?
• Job 38:34
  Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?
• Job 38:35
  “Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you?
• Job 38:36
  Can you send out lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
• Job 38:37
  Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?
• Job 38:38
  Who can count the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the containers of the sky,
• Job 38:39
  when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together?
• Job 38:40
  “Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
• Job 38:41
  when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?
• Job 38:42
  Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?