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