Job 38:1-41 CEV

[1] The LORD Speaks From out of a storm, the LORD said to Job: [2] Why do you talk so much when you know so little? [3] Now get ready to face me! Can you answer the questions I ask? [4] How did I lay the foundation for the earth? Were you there? [5] Doubtless you know who decided its length and width. [6] What supports the foundation? Who placed the cornerstone, [7] while morning stars sang, and angels rejoiced? [8] When the ocean was born, I set its boundaries [9] and wrapped it in blankets of thickest fog. [10] Then I built a wall around it, locked the gates, [11] and said, "Your powerful waves stop here! They can go no farther." [12] Did you ever tell the sun to rise? And did it obey? [13] Did it take hold of the earth and shake out the wicked like dust from a rug? [14] Early dawn outlines the hills like stitches on clothing or sketches on clay. [15] But its light is too much for those who are evil, and their power is broken. [16] Job, have you ever walked on the ocean floor? [17] Have you seen the gate to the world of the dead? [18] And how large is the earth? Tell me, if you know! [19] Where is the home of light, and where does darkness live? [20] Can you lead them home? [21] I'm certain you must be able to, since you were already born when I created everything. [22] Have you been to the places where I keep snow and hail, [23] until I use them to punish and conquer nations? [24] From where does lightning leap, or the east wind blow? [25] Who carves out a path for thunderstorms? Who sends torrents of rain [26] on empty deserts where no one lives? [27] Rain that changes barren land to meadows green with grass. [28] Who is the father of the dew and of the rain? [29] Who gives birth to the sleet and the frost [30] that fall in winter, when streams and lakes freeze solid as a rock? [31] Can you arrange stars in groups such as Orion and the Pleiades? [32] Do you control the stars or set in place the Big Dipper and the Little Dipper? [33] Do you know the laws that govern the heavens, and can you make them rule the earth? [34] Can you order the clouds to send a downpour, [35] or will lightning flash at your command? [36] Did you teach birds to know that rain or floods are on their way? [37] Can you count the clouds or pour out their water [38] on the dry, lumpy soil? [39] When lions are hungry, do you help them hunt? [40] Do you send an animal into their den? [41] And when starving young ravens cry out to me for food, do you satisfy their hunger?