### World English Bible

Job 37

## The Book of Job

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| # Chapter 38
#### 1 | Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,
#### 2 | 'Who is this who darkens counsel By words without knowledge?
#### 3 | Brace yourself like a man, For I will question you, then you answer me!
#### 4 | 'Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.
#### 5 | Who determined the measures of it, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?
#### 6 | Whereupon were the foundations of it fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone,
#### 7 | When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy?
#### 8 | 'Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it broke forth from the womb,
#### 9 | When I made clouds the garment of it, Thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,
#### 10 | Marked out for it my bound, Set bars and doors,
#### 11 | And said, 'Here you may come, but no further; Here shall your proud waves be stayed?'
#### 12 | 'Have you commanded the morning in your days, And caused the dawn to know its place;
#### 13 | That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, And shake the wicked out of it?
#### 14 | It is changed as clay under the seal, And stands forth as a garment.
#### 15 | From the wicked, their light is withheld, The high arm is broken.
#### 16 | 'Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
#### 17 | Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
#### 18 | Have you comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if you know it all.
#### 19 | 'What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is the place of it,
#### 20 | That you should take it to the bound of it, That you should discern the paths to the house of it?
#### 21 | Surely you know, for you were born then, And the number of your days is great!
#### 22 | Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, Or have you seen the treasures of the hail,
#### 23 | Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, Against the day of battle and war?
#### 24 | By what way is the lightning distributed, Or the east wind scattered on the earth?
#### 25 | Who has cut a channel for the flood water, Or the path for the thunderstorm;
#### 26 | To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; On the wilderness, in which there is no man;
#### 27 | To satisfy the waste and desolate ground, To cause the tender grass to spring forth?
#### 28 | Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?
#### 29 | Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it?
#### 30 | The waters become hard like stone, When the surface of the deep is frozen.
#### 31 | 'Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, Or loosen the cords of Orion?
#### 32 | Can you lead forth the constellations in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?
#### 33 | Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish the dominion of it over the earth?
#### 34 | 'Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?
#### 35 | Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, 'Here we are?'
#### 36 | Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?
#### 37 | Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of the sky,
#### 38 | When the dust runs into a mass, And the clods of earth stick together?
#### 39 | 'Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
#### 40 | When they crouch in their dens, And lie in wait in the thicket?
#### 41 | Who provides for the raven his prey, When his young ones cry to God, And wander for lack of food?

Job 39

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