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Job 38

The Bible in Basic English BBE

1 And the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said,

2 Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?

3 Get your strength together like a man of war; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

4 Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.

5 By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?

6 On what were its pillars based, or who put down its angle-stone,

7 When the morning stars made songs together, and all the sons of the gods gave cries of joy?

8 Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;

9 When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it,

10 Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;

11 And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?

12 Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;

13 So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?

14 It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe;

15 And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken.

16 Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?

17 Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?

18 Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all.

19 Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

20 So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house?

21 No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great.

22 Have you come into the secret place of snow, or have you seen the store-houses of the ice-drops,

23 Which I have kept for the time of trouble, for the day of war and fighting?

24 Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?

25 By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder;

26 Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;

27 To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?

28 Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist?

29 Out of whose body came the ice? and who gave birth to the cold mist of heaven?

30 The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.

31 Are the bands of the Pleiades fixed by you, or are the cords of Orion made loose?

32 Do you make Mazzaroth come out in its right time, or are the Bear and its children guided by you?

33 Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?

34 Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?

35 Do you send out the thunder-flames, so that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?

36 Who has put wisdom in the high clouds, or given knowledge to the lights of the north?

37 By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth,

38 When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses?

39 Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough,

40 When they are stretched out in their holes, and are waiting in the brushwood?

41 Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food?

Good News Translation GNT

1 Then out of the storm the Lord spoke to Job.

2 Who are you to question my wisdom with your ignorant, empty words?

3 Now stand up straight and answer the questions I ask you.

4 Were you there when I made the world? If you know so much, tell me about it.

5 Who decided how large it would be? Who stretched the measuring line over it? Do you know all the answers?

6 What holds up the pillars that support the earth? Who laid the cornerstone of the world?

7 In the dawn of that day the stars sang together, and the heavenly beings shouted for joy.

8 Who closed the gates to hold back the sea when it burst from the womb of the earth?

9 It was I who covered the sea with clouds and wrapped it in darkness.

10 I marked a boundary for the sea and kept it behind bolted gates.

11 I told it, "So far and no farther! Here your powerful waves must stop."

12 Job, have you ever in all your life commanded a day to dawn?

13 Have you ordered the dawn to seize the earth and shake the wicked from their hiding places?

14 Daylight makes the hills and valleys stand out like the folds of a garment, clear as the imprint of a seal on clay.

15 The light of day is too bright for the wicked and restrains them from doing violence.

16 Have you been to the springs in the depths of the sea? Have you walked on the floor of the ocean?

17 Has anyone ever shown you the gates that guard the dark world of the dead?

18 Have you any idea how big the world is? Answer me if you know.

19 Do you know where the light comes from or what the source of darkness is?

20 Can you show them how far to go, or send them back again?

21 I am sure you can, because you're so old and were there when the world was made!

22 Have you ever visited the storerooms, where I keep the snow and the hail?

23 I keep them ready for times of trouble, for days of battle and war.

24 Have you been to the place where the sun comes up, or the place from which the east wind blows?

25 Who dug a channel for the pouring rain and cleared the way for the thunderstorm?

26 Who makes rain fall where no one lives?

27 Who waters the dry and thirsty land, so that grass springs up?

28 Does either the rain or the dew have a father?

29 Who is the mother of the ice and the frost,

30 which turn the waters to stone and freeze the face of the sea?

31 Can you tie the Pleiades together or loosen the bonds that hold Orion?

32 Can you guide the stars season by season and direct the Big and the Little Dipper?

33 Do you know the laws that govern the skies, and can you make them apply to the earth?

34 Can you shout orders to the clouds and make them drench you with rain?

35 And if you command the lightning to flash, will it come to you and say, "At your service"?

36 Who tells the ibis when the Nile will flood, or who tells the rooster that rain will fall?

37 Who is wise enough to count the clouds and tilt them over to pour out the rain,

38 rain that hardens the dust into lumps?

39 Do you find food for lions to eat, and satisfy hungry young lions

40 when they hide in their caves, or lie in wait in their dens?

41 Who is it that feeds the ravens when they wander about hungry, when their young cry to me for food?