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