Job 38
New International Version - Job 38 << | >> 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142 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?