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38:1  Then the Lord answered Job out of the strong wind and said,
38:2  “Who is this that makes words of wisdom dark by speaking without much learning?
38:3  Now get ready like a man, and I will ask you some questions and you answer Me.
38:4  Where were you when I began building the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.
38:5  Who decided how big it was to be, since you know? Who looked to see if it was as big as it should be?
38:6  What was it built upon? Who laid its first stone,
38:7  when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God called out for joy?
38:8  “Who shut up the sea with doors, when it rushed out from its secret place?
38:9  I made clouds its clothing, and put much darkness around it.
38:10  I marked the places where it could not pass, and set locks and doors.
38:11  And I said, ‘You will come this far, and no farther. Here will your proud waves stop.’
38:12  “Have you ever in your life told the morning when to come, and caused the first light of day to know its place,
38:13  that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and the sinful be shaken out of it?
38:14  It is changed like clay when an object is pushed down to mark it, and they stand out like clothing.
38:15  The light of the sinful is held back, and the arm lifted up is broken.
38:16  “Have you gone into the wells of the sea? Have you walked on the bottom of the deep sea?
38:17  Have the gates of death been shown to you? Or have you seen the gates of the deep darkness?
38:18  Have you understood how great the earth is? Tell Me, if you know all this.
38:19  “Where does the light come from? And where is the place of darkness,
38:20  that you may take it to its land, and know the paths to its home?
38:21  You know, for you were born then. You are very old!
38:22  Have you gone into the store-houses of the snow? Have you seen the store-houses of the hail,
38:23  which I have kept for the time of trouble, for the day of war and battle?
38:24  What is the way to the place where the light is divided, or the east wind spread over the earth?
38:25  “Who has cut open a way for the flood, and a path for the thunderstorm?
38:26  Who brings rain on the land without people, on a desert without a man in it,
38:27  to fill the need of the wasted land, and to make the grass grow?
38:28  Does the rain have a father? Who has given birth to the drops of rain?
38:29  Who gave birth to ice? And who gave birth to the snow water of heaven?
38:30  Water becomes hard like stone, and the top of the sea is covered with ice.
38:31  “Can you tie the chains of the stars of Pleiades, or loose the ropes of Orion?
38:32  Can you lead the groups of stars out at the right times? Can you lead the stars of the Bear with her young?
38:33  Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you make them to rule over the earth?
38:34  “Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that a flood of water may cover you?
38:35  Can you send out lightnings, that they may go and say to you, ‘Here we are’?
38:36  Who has given wisdom to the heart? Who has given understanding to the mind?
38:37  Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can push over the water jars of the heavens,
38:38  when the dust gathers together and becomes hard?
38:39  “Can you hunt food for the lion? Can you fill the hunger of the young lions,
38:40  when they lie in their own place in the rock, or wait in their hiding place?
38:41  Who gets the food ready for the raven, when its young cry to God and go about without food?