Job 38:1-41 CSB

[1] Then the LORD answered Job from the whirlwind. He said: [2] Who is this who obscures my counsel with ignorant words? [3] Get ready to answer me like a man; when I question you, you will inform me. [4] Where were you when I established the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. [5] Who fixed its dimensions? Certainly you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? [6] What supports its foundations? Or who laid its cornerstone [7] while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy? [8] Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst from the womb, [9] when I made the clouds its garment and total darkness its blanket, [10] when I determined its boundaries and put its bars and doors in place, [11] when I declared, "You may come this far, but no farther; your proud waves stop here"? [12] Have you ever in your life commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place, [13] so it may seize the edges of the earth and shake the wicked out of it? [14] The earth is changed as clay is by a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment. [15] Light is withheld from the wicked, and the arm raised in violence is broken. [16] Have you traveled to the sources of the sea or walked in the depths of the oceans? [17] Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of deep darkness? [18] Have you comprehended the extent of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this. [19] Where is the road to the home of light? Do you know where darkness lives, [20] so you can lead it back to its border? Are you familiar with the paths to its home? [21] Don't you know? You were already born; you have lived so long! [22] Have you entered the place where the snow is stored? Or have you seen the storehouses of hail, [23] which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of warfare and battle? [24] What road leads to the place where light is dispersed? Where is the source of the east wind that spreads across the earth? [25] Who cuts a channel for the flooding rain or clears the way for lightning, [26] to bring rain on an uninhabited land, on a desert with no human life, [27] to satisfy the parched wasteland and cause the grass to sprout? [28] Does the rain have a father? Who fathered the drops of dew? [29] Whose womb did the ice come from? Who gave birth to the frost of heaven [30] when water becomes as hard as stone, and the surface of the watery depths is frozen? [31] Can you fasten the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion? [32] Can you bring out the constellations in their season and lead the Bear and her cubs? [33] Do you know the laws of heaven? Can you impose its authority on earth? [34] Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you? [35] Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go? Do they report to you, "Here we are"? [36] Who put wisdom in the heart or gave the mind understanding? [37] Who has the wisdom to number the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of heaven [38] when the dust hardens like cast metal and the clods of dirt stick together? [39] Can you hunt prey for a lioness or satisfy the appetite of young lions [40] when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait within their lairs? [41] Who provides the raven's food when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?