Job 38:1-41 GW

[1] Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm. [2] "Who is this that belittles my advice with words that do not show any knowledge about it? [3] Brace yourself like a man! I will ask you, and you will teach me. [4] "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me if you have such insight. [5] Who determined its dimensions? Certainly, you know! Who stretched a measuring line over it? [6] On what were its footings sunk? Who laid its cornerstone [7] when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy? [8] "Who shut the sea behind gates when it burst through and came out of the womb, [9] when I clothed it with clouds and wrapped it up in dark clouds, [10] when I set a limit for it and put up bars and gates, [11] when I said, 'You may come this far but no farther. Here your proud waves will stop'? [12] "Have you ever given orders to the morning or assigned a place for the dawn [13] so that it could grab the earth by its edges and shake wicked people out of it? [14] The earth changes like clay stamped by a seal, and parts of it stand out like folds in clothing. [15] Wicked people are deprived of their light, and an arm raised in victory is broken. [16] Have you gone to the springs in the sea or walked through the valleys of the ocean depths? [17] Have the gateways to death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gateways to total darkness? [18] Have you even considered how wide the earth is? Tell me, if you know all of this! [19] "What is the way to the place where light lives? Where is the home of darkness [20] so that you may lead it to its territory, so that you may know the path to its home? [21] You must know because you were born then and have lived such a long time! [22] Have you been to the warehouses where snow is stored or seen the warehouses for hail [23] that I have stored up for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war? [24] Which is the way to the place where light is scattered and the east wind is spread across the earth? [25] "Who made a channel for the flooding rains and a path for the thunderstorms [26] to bring rain on a land where no one lives, on a desert where there are no humans, [27] to saturate the desolate wasteland in order to make it sprout with grass? [28] Does the rain have a father? Who gave birth to the dewdrops? [29] From whose womb came the ice, and who has given birth to the frost in the air? [30] The water hardens like a stone, and the surface of the ocean freezes over. [31] "Can you connect the chains of the constellation Pleiades or untie the ropes of Orion? [32] Can you bring out the constellations at the right time or guide Ursa Major with its cubs? [33] Do you know the laws of the sky or make them rule the earth? [34] Can you call to the clouds and have a flood of water cover you? [35] Can you send lightning flashes so that they may go and say to you, 'Here we are'? [36] Who put wisdom in the heart or gave understanding to the mind? [37] Who is wise enough to count the clouds or pour out the water jars of heaven [38] when the dirt hardens into clumps and the soil clings together? [39] "Can you hunt prey for the lioness and satisfy the hunger of her cubs [40] as they crouch in their dens and lie ready to ambush from their lairs? [41] "Who provides food for the crow when its young ones cry to God and wander around in need of food?