Job 38 | Strong's Bible

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CHAPTER 38

Then the LORD

answered

Job

out of

the whirlwind

and said:

“Who

is this

who obscures

My counsel

by words

without

knowledge?

Now

brace

yourself

like a man;

I will question you,

and you shall inform Me!

Where

were you

when I laid the foundations

of the earth?

Tell Me,

if

you have understanding.

Who

fixed

its measurements?

Surely

you know!

Or

who

stretched

a measuring line

across it?

On what

were its foundations

laid,

or

who

set

its core in place—

while the morning

stars

sang

together

and all

the sons

of God

shouted for joy?

Who enclosed

the sea

behind doors

when it burst forth

from the womb,

when I made

the clouds

its garment

and thick darkness

its blanket,

when I fixed

its boundaries

and set in place

its bars

and doors,

and I declared:

‘You may come

this far,

but no

farther;

here

your proud

waves

must stop’?

In your days,

have you commanded

the morning

or assigned

the dawn

its place,

that it might spread

to the ends

of the earth

and shake

the wicked

out of it?

The earth takes shape

like clay

under a seal;

its hills stand out

like

the folds of a garment.

Light

is withheld

from the wicked,

and their upraised

arm

is broken.

Have you journeyed

to

the vents

of the sea

or walked

in the trenches

of the deep?

Have the gates

of death

been revealed

to you?

Have you seen

the gates

of the shadow of death?

Have you surveyed

the extent

of the earth?

Tell Me,

if

you know

all this.

Where

is the way

to the home

of light?

Do you know where

darkness

resides,

so

you can lead it back

to

its border?

Do you know

the paths

to its home?

Surely you know,

for

you were already

born!

And the number

of your days

is great!

Have you entered

the storehouses

of snow

or observed

the storehouses

of hail,

which

I hold in reserve

for times

of trouble,

for the day

of war

and battle?

In which

direction

is the lightning

dispersed,

or the east wind

scattered

over

the earth?

Who

cuts

a channel

for the flood

or clears a path

for

the thunderbolt,

to bring rain

on

a barren

land,

on a desert

where no

man lives,

to satisfy

the parched

wasteland

and make it sprout

with tender grass?

Does the rain

have

a father?

Who

has begotten

the drops

of dew?

From whose

womb

does the ice

emerge?

Who

gave birth to

the frost

from heaven,

when the waters

become hard

as stone,

and the surface

of the deep

is frozen?

Can you bind

the chains

of the Pleiades

or

loosen

the belt

of Orion?

Can you bring forth

the constellations

in their seasons

or lead out

the Bear

and

her cubs?

Do you know

the laws

of the heavens?

Can you set

their dominion

over the earth?

Can you command

the clouds

so that a flood

of water

covers you?

Can you send

the lightning bolts

on their way?

Do they report

to you,

‘Here we are’?

Who

has put

wisdom

in the heart

or

given

understanding

to the mind?

Who

has the wisdom

to count

the clouds?

Or who

can tilt

the water jars

of the heavens

when the dust

hardens

into a mass

and the clods of earth

stick together?

Can you hunt

the prey

for a lioness

or satisfy

the hunger

of young lions

when

they crouch

in their dens

and lie

in

wait

in the thicket?

Who

provides

food

for the raven

when

its young

cry out

to

God

as they wander about

for lack of

food?

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