Yahweh Answers Job
Then Yahweh aanswered Job out of the whirlwind and said,
2 “Who is this that adarkens counsel
By words without knowledge?
3 Now agird up your loins like a man,
And bI will ask you, and you make Me know!
4 Where were you awhen I laid the foundation of the earth?
Tell Me, if you know understanding,
5 Who set its ameasurements? Since you know.
Or who stretched the line on it?
6 On what awere its bases sunk?
Or who laid its cornerstone,
7 When the morning stars sang together
And all the asons of God shouted for joy?
8 “Or who aenclosed the sea with doors
When, bursting forth, it went out from the womb,
9 When I made a cloud its garment
And dense gloom its swaddling band,
10 And I aplaced boundaries on it
And set a bolt and doors,
11 And I said, ‘Thus far you shall come, but no farther;
And here shall your proud waves stop’?
Yahweh Answers Job, “Have You?”
12 “Have you ever in your life commanded the morning,
And caused the dawn to know its place,
13 That it might seize athe ends of the earth,
And bthe wicked be shaken out of it?
14 It is changed like clay under the seal;
And they stand forth like clothing.
15 aFrom the wicked their light is withheld,
And the arm braised high is broken.
16 “Have you entered into athe springs of the sea
Or 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 ashadow of death?
18 Have you carefully considered the expanse of athe earth?
Tell Me, if you know all this.
19 “Where is the way to where the light dwells?
And darkness, where is its place,
20 That you may take it to aits territory
And that you may discern the paths to its home?
21 You know, for ayou were born then,
And the number of your days is great!
22 Have you entered the storehouses aof the snow,
Or have you seen the storehouses of the bhail,
23 Which I have reserved for the time of distress,
For the day of war and battle?
24 Where is the way that athe light is divided,
Or the east wind scattered on the earth?
25 “Who has cleft a conduit for the flood,
Or a way for the thunderbolt,
26 To bring arain on a land without people,
On a desert without a man in it,
27 To asatisfy the waste and desolate land
And to make the growth of grass to sprout?
28 Has athe rain a father?
Or who has begotten the drops of dew?
29 From whose womb has come the aice?
And the frost of heaven, who has given it birth?
30 Water becomes hard like stone,
And the surface of the deep is interlocked.
31 “Can you bind the chains of the aPleiades,
Or loose the cords of Orion?
32 Can you lead forth a constellation in its season,
And guide the Bear with her satellites?
33 Do you know the astatutes of the heavens,
Or fix their rule over the earth?
34 “Can you raise your voice up to the clouds,
So that an aabundance of water will cover you?
35 Can you asend forth lightnings that they may go
And say to you, ‘Here we are’?
36 Who has agiven wisdom in the innermost being
Or given bunderstanding to the mind?
37 Who can count the clouds by wisdom,
Or atip the water jars of the heavens,
38 When the dust hardens into a mass
And the clods stick together?
Yahweh Answers Job, “Where Were You?”
39 “Can you hunt the aprey for the lion,
Or fulfill the appetite of the young lions,
40 When they acrouch in their dens
And lie in wait in their lair?
41 Who prepares for athe raven its provision
When its young cry for help to God
And wander about without food?