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Chapter 38
1 Then the Lord answered Job out of a whirlwind, and said:
2 Who is this that wraps up sentences in unskillful words?
3 Gird up your loins like a man: I will ask you, and answer you me.
4 Where were you when I laid up the foundations of the earth? tell me if you have understanding.
5 Who has laid the measures thereof, if you know? or who has stretched the line upon it?
6 Upon what are its bases grounded? or who laid the corner stone thereof,
7 When the morning stars praised me together, and all the sons of God made a joyful melody?
8 Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb:
9 when I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in a mist as in swaddling bands?
10 I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors:
11 And I said: Hitherto you shall come, and shall go no further, and here you shall break your swelling waves.
12 did you since your birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place?
13 And did you hold the extremities of the earth shaking them, and have you shaken the ungodly out of it?
14 The seal shall be restored as clay, and shall stand as a garment:
15 From the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the high arm shall be broken.
16 have you entered into the depths of the sea, and walked in the lowest parts of the deep?
17 Have the gates of death been opened to you, and have you seen the darksome doors?
18 have you considered the breadth of the earth? tell me, if you know all things?
19 Where is the way where light dwells, and where is the place of darkness:
20 That you may bring every thing to its own bounds, and understand the paths of the house thereof.
21 did you know then that you should be born? and did you know the number of your days?
22 have you entered into the storehouses of the snow, or has you beheld the treasures of the hail:
23 Which I have prepared for the time of the enemy, against the day of battle and war?
24 By what way is the light spread, and heat divided upon the earth?
25 Who gave a course to violent showers, or a way for noisy thunder:
26 That it should rain on the earth without man in the wilderness, where no mortal dwells:
27 That it should fill the desert and desolate land, and should bring forth green grass?
28 Who is the father of rain? or who begot the drops of dew?
29 Out of whose womb came the ice; and the frost from heaven who has gendered it?
30 The waters are hardened like a stone, and the surface of the deep is congealed.
31 shall you be able to join together the shining stars the Pleiades, or can you stop the turning about of Arcturus?
32 can you bring forth the day star in its time, and make the evening star to rise upon the children of the earth?
33 do you know the order of heaven, and can you set down the reason thereof on the earth?
34 can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that an abundance of waters may cover you?
35 can you send lightnings, and will they go, and will they return and say to you: Here we are?
36 Who has put wisdom in the heart of man? or who gave the cock understanding?
37 Who can declare the order of the heavens, or who can make the harmony of heaven to sleep?
38 When was the dust poured on the earth, and the clods fastened together?
39 will you take the prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite of her whelps,
40 When they couch in the dens and lie in wait in holes?
41 Who provides food for the raven, when her young ones cry to God, wandering about, because they have no meat?