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job 38

1 - Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind,
2 - "Who is this who darkens counselby words without knowledge?
3 - Brace yourself like a man,for I will question you, then you answer me!
4 - "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?Declare, if you have understanding.
5 - Who determined its measures, if you know?Or who stretched the line on it?
6 - Whereupon were its foundations fastened?Or who laid its cornerstone,
7 - when the morning stars sang together,and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8 - "Or who shut up the sea with doors,when it broke out of the womb,
9 - when I made clouds its garment,and wrapped it in thick darkness,
10 - marked out for it my bound,set bars and doors,
11 - and said, 'Here you may come, but no further.Here your proud waves shall be stayed?'
12 - "Have you commanded the morning in your days,and caused the dawn to know its place;
13 - that it might take hold of the ends of the earth,and shake the wicked out of it?
14 - It is changed as clay under the seal,and presented as a garment.
15 - From the wicked, their light is withheld.The high arm is broken.
16 - "Have you entered into the springs of the sea?Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
17 - Have the gates of death been revealed to you?Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
18 - Have you comprehended the earth in its width?Declare, if you know it all.
19 - "What is the way to the dwelling of light?As for darkness, where is its place,
20 - that you should take it to its bound,that you should discern the paths to its house?
21 - Surely you know, for you were born then,and the number of your days is great!
22 - Have you entered the treasuries of the snow,or have you seen the treasures of the hail,
23 - which I have reserved against the time of trouble,against the day of battle and war?
24 - By what way is the lightning distributed,or the east wind scattered on the earth?
25 - Who has cut a channel for the flood water,or the path for the thunderstorm;
26 - To cause it to rain on a land where no man is;on the wilderness, in which there is no man;
27 - to satisfy the waste and desolate ground,to cause the tender grass to grow?
28 - Does the rain have a father?Or who fathers the drops of dew?
29 - Out of whose womb came the ice?The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it?
30 - The waters become hard like stone,when the surface of the deep is frozen.
31 - "Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades,or loosen the cords of Orion?
32 - Can you lead the constellations out in their season?Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?
33 - Do you know the laws of the heavens?Can you establish its dominion over the earth?
34 - "Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,That abundance of waters may cover you?
35 - Can you send out lightnings, that they may go?Do they report to you, 'Here we are?'
36 - Who has put wisdom in the inward parts?Or who has given understanding to the mind?
37 - Who can count the clouds by wisdom?Or who can pour out the bottles of the sky,
38 - when the dust runs into a mass,and the clods of earth stick together?
39 - "Can you hunt the prey for the lioness,or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
40 - when they crouch in their dens,and lie in wait in the thicket?
41 - Who provides for the raven his prey,when his young ones cry to God,and wander for lack of food?