Job 38:1-41 CEB

[1] Then the LORD answered Job from the whirlwind: [2] Who is this darkening counsel with words lacking knowledge? [3] Prepare yourself like a man; I will interrogate you, and you will respond to me. [4] Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundations? Tell me if you know. [5] Who set its measurements? Surely you know. Who stretched a measuring tape on it? [6] On what were its footings sunk; who laid its cornerstone, [7] while the morning stars sang in unison and all the divine beings shouted? [8] Who enclosed the Sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb, [9] when I made the clouds its garment, the dense clouds its wrap, [10] when I imposed my limit for it, put on a bar and doors [11] and said, “You may come this far, no farther; here your proud waves stop”? [12] In your lifetime have you commanded the morning, informed the dawn of its place [13] so it would take hold of earth by its edges and shake the wicked out of it? [14] Do you turn it over like clay for a seal, so it stands out like a colorful garment? [15] Light is withheld from the wicked, the uplifted arm broken. [16] Have you gone to the sea’s sources, walked in the chamber of the deep? [17] Have death’s gates been revealed to you; can you see the gates of deep darkness? [18] Have you surveyed earth’s expanses? Tell me if you know everything about it. [19] Where’s the road to the place where light dwells; darkness, where’s it located? [20] Can you take it to its territory; do you know the paths to its house? [21] You know, for you were born then; you have lived such a long time! [22] Have you gone to snow’s storehouses, seen the storehouses of hail [23] that I have reserved for a time of distress, for a day of battle and war? [24] What is the way to the place where light is divided up; the east wind scattered over earth? [25] Who cut a channel for the downpours and a way for blasts of thunder [26] to bring water to uninhabited land, a desert with no human [27] to saturate dry wasteland and make grass sprout? [28] Has the rain a father who brought forth drops of dew? [29] From whose belly does ice come; who gave birth to heaven’s frost? [30] Water hardens like stone; the surface of the deep thickens. [31] Can you bind Pleiades’ chains or loosen the reins of Orion? [32] Can you guide the stars at their proper times, lead the Bear with her cubs? [33] Do you know heaven’s laws, or can you impose its rule on earth? [34] Can you issue an order to the clouds so their abundant waters cover you? [35] Can you send lightning so that it goes and then says to you, “I’m here”? [36] Who put wisdom in remote places, or who gave understanding to a rooster? [37] Who is wise enough to count the clouds, and who can tilt heaven’s water containers [38] so that dust becomes mud and clods of dirt adhere? [39] Can you hunt prey for the lion or fill the cravings of lion cubs? [40] They lie in their den, lie in ambush in their lair. [41] Who provides food for the raven when its young cry to God, move about without food?