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And I shut up the sea with gates, when it rushed out, coming forth out its mother's womb.
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And I made a cloud its clothing, and swathed it in mist.
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And I set bounds to it, surrounding it with bars and gates.
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And I said to it, Hitherto shalt thou come, but thou shalt not go beyond, but thy waves shall be confined within thee.
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Or did I order the morning light in thy time; and the morning star see his appointed place;
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to lay hold of the extremities of the earth, to cast out the ungodly out of it?
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Or didst thou take clay of the ground, and form a living creature, and set it with the power of speech upon the earth?
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And hast thou removed light from the ungodly, and crushed the arm of the proud?
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Or hast thou gone to the source of the sea, and walked in the tracks of the deep?
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And do the gates of death open to thee for fear; and did the porters of hell quake when they saw thee?
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And hast thou been instructed in the breadth of the under heaven? tell me now, what is the extent of it?
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And in what kind of a land does the light dwell? and of what kind is the place of darkness?
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If thou couldest bring me to their boundaries, and if also thou knowest their paths;
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I know then that thou wert born at that time, and the number of thy years is great.
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But hast thou gone to the treasures of snow? and hast thou seen the treasures of hail?
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And is there a store , for thee against the time of enemies, for the day of wars and battle?
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And whence proceeds the frost? or is the south wind dispersed over the under heaven?
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And who prepared a course for the violent rain, and a way for the thunders;
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to rain upon the land where no man, the wilderness, where there is not a man in it; so as to feed the untrodden and uninhabited ,
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and cause it to send forth a crop of green herbs?
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Who is the rain's father? and who has generated the drops of dew?
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And out of whose womb comes the ice? and who has produced the frost in the sky,
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which descends like flowing water? who has terrified the face of the ungodly?
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And dost thou understand the band of Pleias, and hast thou opened the barrier of Orion?
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Or wilt thou reveal Mazuroth in his season, and the evening star with his rays? Wilt thou guide them?
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And knowest thou the changes of heaven, or the events which take place together under heaven?
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And wilt thou call a cloud with thy voice, and will it obey thee with a violent shower of much rain?
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And wilt thou send lightnings, and they shall go? and shall they say to thee, What is ?
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And who has given to women skill in weaving, or knowledge of embroidery?
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And who is he that numbers the clouds in wisdom, and has bowed the heaven to the earth?
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For it is spread out as dusty earth, and I have cemented it as one hewn stone to another.