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38:1  Then Hashem answered Iyov out of the whirlwind, and said,
38:2  Who is this that darkeneth etzah (counsel) with words without da’as?
38:3  Gird up now thy loins like a gever; for I will ask of thee, and thou wilt answer Me.
38:4  Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of eretz? Tell, if thou hast binah.
38:5  Who hath drafted the dimensions thereof, if thou hast da’as? Or who hath stretched a measuring line across it?
38:6  Whereupon are the foundations thereof set? Or who laid the even-pinnah (cornerstone) thereof
38:7  When the kokhvei boker sang together, and all the Bnei Elohim shouted for joy?
38:8  Or who shut up the yam behind doors? Who brought it forth, issuing out of the rekhem (womb)
38:9  When I made the anan the garment thereof, and thick darkness its swaddling band,
38:10  And fixed bounds for it, and set bars and dlatot (doors),
38:11  And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and poh (here) shall thy proud waves be stopped?
38:12  Hast thou commanded the boker since thy yamim began; or caused the shachar (dawn) to know its place;
38:13  That it might seize the ends of ha’aretz, that the resha’im be shaken out of it?
38:14  It is changed like chomer (clay) under the khotam (seal); and they stand out like a garment.
38:15  And from the resha’im their ohr is denied, and the upraised zero’a shall be broken.
38:16  Hast thou entered into the springs of the yam? Or hast thou walked in the recesses of the tehom?
38:17  Have the sha’arei mavet been disclosed unto thee? Or hast thou seen the sha’arei tzalmavet?
38:18  Hast thou perceived the expanse of eretz? Tell Me if thou hast da’as of it all.
38:19  Where is the derech where ohr dwelleth? And as for choshech, where is the place thereof,
38:20  That thou shouldest take it to its border, and that thou shouldest have da’as of the paths to its bais?
38:21  Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? Or because the mispar of thy yamim is so great?
38:22  Hast thou entered into the otzrot (storehouses) of the snow? Or hast thou seen the otzrot of barad (hail),
38:23  Which I have reserved for the time of tzar, for the yom kerav (battle) and milchamah (war)?
38:24  Which is the derech where the ohr is distributed, where is scattered the east wind upon eretz?
38:25  Who hath cut a channel for the overflowing of waters, or a derech for the lightning of thunder,
38:26  To cause it to rain on eretz, where lo ish is; on midbar, wherein there is lo adam;
38:27  To saturate a desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the desheh to spring forth?
38:28  Hath the rain an av? Or who hath begotten the drops of tal (dew)?
38:29  Out of whose beten cometh the ice? And the frost of Shomayim, who giveth birth to it?
38:30  The mayim harden like even (stone), and the face of tehom is frozen.
38:31  Canst thou bind the chains of the Pleiades, or loose the bonds of Orion?
38:32  Canst thou bring forth Mazzarot in their times? Or canst thou guide the Bear with its banim?
38:33  Knowest thou the chukkot of Shomayim? Canst thou set the rule over ha’aretz?
38:34  Canst thou lift up thy kol (voice) to the clouds, that abundance of mayim may cover thee?
38:35  Canst thou send lightning bolts, that they may go and say unto thee, Hineinu (here we are)?
38:36  Who hath put chochmah in the inward parts, or who hath given binah to the mind?
38:37  Who can number the clouds in chochmah, or who can tip the waterskins of Shomayim,
38:38  When the dust hardens into a clump, and the clods cleave fast together?
38:39  Wilt thou hunt the teref for the lioness, or fill the appetite of her whelps,
38:40  When they crouch in their me’onot (dens), and abide in the lair to lie in ambush?
38:41  Who provideth for the raven his food? When his young ones cry unto El, they wander about for lack of okhel.