Job 38:1-41 LSV

[1] And YHWH answers Job out of the whirlwind and says: [2] “Who [is] this—darkening counsel, || By words without knowledge? [3] Now gird your loins as a man, || And I ask you, and you cause Me to know. [4] Where were you when I founded the earth? Declare, if you have known understanding. [5] Who placed its measures—if you know? Or who has stretched out a line on it? [6] On what have its sockets been sunk? Or who has cast its cornerstone— [7] In the singing together of [the] stars of morning, || When all [the] sons of God shout for joy? [8] And He shuts up the sea with doors, || In its coming forth, it goes out from the womb. [9] In My making a cloud its clothing, || And thick darkness its swaddling band, [10] And I measure My statute over it, || And place bar and doors, [11] And say, To here you come, and no more, || And a command is placed || On the pride of your billows. [12] Have you commanded morning since your days? Do you cause the dawn to know its place? [13] To take hold on the skirts of the earth, || And the wicked are shaken out of it, [14] It turns itself as clay of a seal || And they station themselves as clothed. [15] And their light is withheld from the wicked, || And the arm lifted up is broken. [16] Have you come to springs of the sea? And in searching the deep || Have you walked up and down? [17] Were the gates of death revealed to you? And do you see the gates of death-shade? [18] You have understanding, || Even to the broad places of earth! Declare—if you have known it all. [19] Where [is] this—the way light dwells? And darkness, where [is] this—its place? [20] That you take it to its boundary, || And that you understand the paths of its house. [21] You have known—for then you are born, || And the number of your days [are] many! [22] Have you come to the treasure of snow? Indeed, do you see the treasures of hail, [23] That I have kept back for a time of distress, || For a day of conflict and battle? [24] Where [is] this, the way light is apportioned? It scatters an east wind over the earth. [25] Who has divided a conduit for the flood? And a way for the lightning of the voices? [26] To cause [it] to rain on a land [with] no man, || A wilderness [with] no man in it. [27] To satisfy a desolate and ruined place, || And to cause to shoot up || The produce of the tender grass? [28] Does the rain have a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew? [29] From whose belly came forth the ice? And the hoarfrost of the heavens, || Who has begotten it? [30] Waters are hidden as a stone, || And the face of the deep is captured. [31] Do you bind the chains of the Pleiades? Or do you open the cords of Orion? [32] Do you bring out the twelve signs in [their] season? And do you comfort the Great Bear over her sons? [33] Have you known the statutes of the heavens? Or do you appoint || Its dominion in the earth? [34] Do you lift up your voice to the cloud, || And abundance of water covers you? [35] Do you send out lightnings, and they go || And say to you, Behold us? [36] Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the covered part? [37] Who numbers the clouds by wisdom? And the bottles of the heavens, || Who causes to lie down, [38] In the hardening of dust into hardness, || And clods cleave together? [39] Do you hunt prey for a lion? And fulfill the desire of young lions? [40] When they bow down in dens—Abide in a thicket for a covert? [41] Who prepares for a raven his provision, || When his young ones cry to God? They wander without food.”