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38:1  Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind and said,
38:2  “Who is this that darkens counsel By words without knowledge?
38:3  Now gird up your loins like a man, And I will ask you, and you make Me know!
38:4  Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell Me, if you know understanding,
38:5  Who set its measurements? Since you know. Or who stretched the line on it?
38:6  On what were its bases sunk? 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 enclosed the sea with doors When, bursting forth, it went out from the womb,
38:9  When I made a cloud its garment And dense gloom its swaddling band,
38:10  And I placed boundaries on it And set a bolt and doors,
38:11  And I said, ‘Thus far you shall come, but no farther; And here shall your proud waves stop’?
38:12  “Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, And caused the dawn to know its place,
38:13  That it might seize the ends of the earth, And the wicked be shaken out of it?
38:14  It is changed like clay under the seal; And they stand forth like clothing.
38:15  From the wicked their light is withheld, And the arm raised high is broken.
38:16  “Have you entered into the springs of the sea Or 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 carefully considered the expanse of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.
38:19  “Where is the way to where the light dwells? And darkness, where is its place,
38:20  That you may take it to its territory And that you may discern the paths to its home?
38:21  You know, for you were born then, And the number of your days is great!
38:22  Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, Or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
38:23  Which I have reserved for the time of distress, For the day of war and battle?
38:24  Where is the way that the light is divided, Or the east wind scattered on the earth?
38:25  “Who has cleft a conduit for the flood, Or a way for the thunderbolt,
38:26  To bring rain on a land without people, On a desert without a man in it,
38:27  To satisfy the waste and desolate land And to make the growth of grass to sprout?
38:28  Has the rain a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?
38:29  From whose womb has come the ice? And the frost of heaven, who has given it birth?
38:30  Water becomes hard like stone, And the surface of the deep is interlocked.
38:31  “Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, Or loose the cords of Orion?
38:32  Can you lead forth a constellation in its season, And guide the Bear with her satellites?
38:33  Do you know the statutes of the heavens, Or fix their rule over the earth?
38:34  “Can you raise your voice up to the clouds, So that an abundance of water will cover you?
38:35  Can you send forth lightnings that they may go And say to you, ‘Here we are’?
38:36  Who has given wisdom in the innermost being Or given understanding to the mind?
38:37  Who can count the clouds by wisdom, Or tip the water jars of the heavens,
38:38  When the dust hardens into a mass And the clods stick together?
38:39  “Can you hunt the prey for the lion, Or fulfill the appetite of the young lions,
38:40  When they crouch in their dens And lie in wait in their lair?
38:41  Who prepares for the raven its provision When its young cry for help to God And wander about without food?