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Job 38:1 (BSB)
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:

Job 38:2 (BSB)
“Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?

Job 38:3 (BSB)
Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.

Job 38:4 (BSB)
Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.

Job 38:5 (BSB)
Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?

Job 38:6 (BSB)
On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone,

Job 38:7 (BSB)
while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Job 38:8 (BSB)
Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

Job 38:9 (BSB)
when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,

Job 38:10 (BSB)
when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,

Job 38:11 (BSB)
and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?

Job 38:12 (BSB)
In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,

Job 38:13 (BSB)
that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?

Job 38:14 (BSB)
The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.

Job 38:15 (BSB)
Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.

Job 38:16 (BSB)
Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?

Job 38:17 (BSB)
Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

Job 38:18 (BSB)
Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.

Job 38:19 (BSB)
Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,

Job 38:20 (BSB)
so you can lead it back to its border? Do you know the paths to its home?

Job 38:21 (BSB)
Surely you know, for you were already born! And the number of your days is great!

Job 38:22 (BSB)
Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,

Job 38:23 (BSB)
which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of war and battle?

Job 38:24 (BSB)
In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?

Job 38:25 (BSB)
Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,

Job 38:26 (BSB)
to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,

Job 38:27 (BSB)
to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?

Job 38:28 (BSB)
Does the rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?

Job 38:29 (BSB)
From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,

Job 38:30 (BSB)
when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?

Job 38:31 (BSB)
Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?

Job 38:32 (BSB)
Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear and her cubs?

Job 38:33 (BSB)
Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?

Job 38:34 (BSB)
Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

Job 38:35 (BSB)
Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?

Job 38:36 (BSB)
Who has put wisdom in the heart or given understanding to the mind?

Job 38:37 (BSB)
Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens

Job 38:38 (BSB)
when the dust hardens into a mass and the clods of earth stick together?

Job 38:39 (BSB)
Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions

Job 38:40 (BSB)
when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait in the thicket?

Job 38:41 (BSB)
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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