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