Job 38:1-41 NET

[1] Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind: [2] "Who is this who darkens counsel with words without knowledge? [3] Get ready for a difficult task like a man; I will question you and you will inform me. [4] "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you possess understanding. [5] Who set its measurements-if you know-or who stretched a measuring line across it? [6] On what were its bases set, or who laid its cornerstone- [7] when the morning stars sang in chorus, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? [8] "Who shut up the sea with doors when it burst forth, coming out of the womb, [9] when I made the storm clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band, [10] when I prescribed its limits, and set in place its bolts and doors, [11] when I said, 'To here you may come and no farther, here your proud waves will be confined'? [12] Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, or made the dawn know its place, [13] that it might seize the corners of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it? [14] The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features are dyed like a garment. [15] Then from the wicked the light is withheld, and the arm raised in violence is broken. [16] Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea, or walked about in the recesses of the deep? [17] Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of deepest darkness? [18] Have you considered the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know it all. [19] "In what direction does light reside, and darkness, where is its place, [20] that you may take them to their borders and perceive the pathways to their homes? [21] You know, for you were born before them; and the number of your days is great! [22] Have you entered the storehouse of the snow, or seen the armory of the hail, [23] which I reserve for the time of trouble, for the day of war and battle? [24] In what direction is lightning dispersed, or the east winds scattered over the earth? [25] Who carves out a channel for the heavy rains, and a path for the rumble of thunder, [26] to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a wilderness where there are no human beings, [27] to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and to cause it to sprout with vegetation? [28] Does the rain have a father, or who has fathered the drops of the dew? [29] From whose womb does the ice emerge, and the frost from the sky, who gives birth to it, [30] when the waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen solid? [31] Can you tie the bands of the Pleiades, or release the cords of Orion? [32] Can you lead out the constellations in their seasons, or guide the Bear with its cubs? [33] Do you know the laws of the heavens, or can you set up their rule over the earth? [34] Can you raise your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water covers you? [35] Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go? Will they say to you, 'Here we are'? [36] Who has put wisdom in the heart, or has imparted understanding to the mind? [37] Who by wisdom can count the clouds, and who can tip over the water jars of heaven, [38] when the dust hardens into a mass, and the clumps of earth stick together? [39] "Do you hunt prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite of the lions [40] when they crouch in their dens, when they wait in ambush in the thicket? [41] Who prepares prey for the raven, when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?