Job 38:1
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
Job 38:2
Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
Job 38:3
Gird up now your loins like a man; for I will demand of you, and answer you me.
Job 38:4
Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if you have understanding.
Job 38:5
Who has laid the measures thereof, if you know? or who has stretched the line on it?
Job 38:6
Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
Job 38:7
When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Job 38:8
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
Job 38:9
When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling cloth for it,
Job 38:10
And broke up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
Job 38:11
And said, Till now shall you come, but no further: and here shall your proud waves be stayed?
Job 38:12
Have you commanded the morning since your days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
Job 38:13
That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
Job 38:14
It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.
Job 38:15
And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the high arm shall be broken.
Job 38:16
Have you entered into the springs of the sea? or have you walked in the search of the depth?
Job 38:17
Have the gates of death been opened to you? or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?
Job 38:18
Have you perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if you know it all.
Job 38:19
Where is the way where light dwells? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
Job 38:20
That you should take it to the bound thereof, and that you should know the paths to the house thereof?
Job 38:21
Know you it, because you were then born? or because the number of your days is great?
Job 38:22
Have you entered into the treasures of the snow? or have you seen the treasures of the hail,
Job 38:23
Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
Job 38:24
By what way is the light parted, which scatters the east wind on the earth?
Job 38:25
Who has divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;
Job 38:26
To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;
Job 38:27
To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
Job 38:28
Has the rain a father? or who has begotten the drops of dew?
Job 38:29
Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who has gendered it?
Job 38:30
The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
Job 38:31
Can you bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
Job 38:32
Can you bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or can you guide Arcturus with his sons?
Job 38:33
Know you the ordinances of heaven? can you set the dominion thereof in the earth?
Job 38:34
Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you?
Job 38:35
Can you send lightning, that they may go and say to you, Here we are?
Job 38:36
Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? or who has given understanding to the heart?
Job 38:37
Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,
Job 38:38
When the dust grows into hardness, and the clods stuck fast together?
Job 38:39
Will you hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,
Job 38:40
When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?
Job 38:41
Who provides for the raven his food? when his young ones cry to God, they wander for lack of meat.