### Douay Rheims Bible

Job 37

## The Book of Job

Return to Index

| # Chapter 38
#### 1 | Then the Lord answered Job out of a whirlwind, and said :
#### 2 | Who is this that wrappeth up sentences in unskillful words?
#### 3 | Gird up thy loins like a man : I will ask thee, and answer thou me.
#### 4 | Where wast thou when I laid up the foundations of the earth ? tell me if thou hast understanding.
#### 5 | Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath 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 thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and here thou shalt break thy swelling waves.
#### 12 | Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place?
#### 13 | And didst thou hold the extremities of the earth shaking them, and hast thou 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 | Hast thou 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 thee, and hast thou seen the darksome doors?
#### 18 | Hast thou considered the breadth of the earth? tell me, if thou knowest all things?
#### 19 | Where is the way where light dwelleth, and where is the place of darkness :
#### 20 | That thou mayst bring every thing to its own bounds, and understand the paths of the house thereof.
#### 21 | Didst thou know then that thou shouldst be born ? and didst thou know the number of thy days?
#### 22 | Hast thou entered into the storehouses of the snow, or has thou 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 dwelleth :
#### 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 hath gendered it?
#### 30 | The waters are hardened like a stone, and the surface of the deep is congealed.
#### 31 | Shalt thou be able to join together the shining stars the Pleiades, or canst thou stop the turning about of Arcturus?
#### 32 | Canst thou bring forth the day star in its time, and make the evening star to rise upon the children of the earth?
#### 33 | Dost thou know the order of heaven, and canst thou set down the reason thereof on the earth?
#### 34 | Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that an abundance of waters may cover thee?
#### 35 | Canst thou send lightnings, and will they go, and will they return and say to thee : Here we are?
#### 36 | Who hath 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 | Wilt thou 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 provideth food for the raven, when her young ones cry to God, wandering about, because they have no meat?

Job 39

Public Domain Software by johnhurt.com