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Job 38

Holman Christian Standard Bible CSB

1 Then the Lord answered Job from the whirlwind. He said:

2 Who is this who obscures [My] counsel with ignorant words?

3 Get ready to answer Me like a man; when I question you, you will inform Me.

4 Where were you when I established the earth? Tell [Me], if you have understanding.

5 Who fixed its dimensions? Certainly you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?

6 What supports its foundations? Or who laid its cornerstone

7 while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

8 Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst from the womb,

9 when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,

10 when I determined its boundaries and put [its] bars and doors in place,

11 when I declared: "You may come this far, but no farther; your proud waves stop here"?

12 Have you ever in your life commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,

13 so it may seize the edges of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?

14 The earth is changed as clay is by a seal; [its hills] stand out like [the folds of] a garment.

15 Light is withheld from the wicked, and the arm raised [in violence] is broken.

16 Have you traveled to the sources of the sea or walked in the depths of the oceans?

17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of death's shadow?

18 Have you comprehended the extent of the earth? Tell [Me], if you know all this.

19 Where is the road to the home of light? [Do you know] where darkness lives,

20 so you can lead it back to its border? Are you familiar with the paths to its home?

21 Don't you know? You were already born; you have lived so long!

22 Have you entered the [place] where the snow is stored? Or have you seen the storehouses of hail,

23 which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of warfare and battle?

24 What road leads to [the place] where light is dispersed? [Where is the source of] the east wind that spreads across the earth?

25 Who cuts a channel for the flooding rain or clears the way for lightning,

26 to bring rain on an uninhabited land, [on] a desert with no human life,

27 to satisfy the parched wasteland and cause the grass to sprout?

28 Does the rain have a father? Who fathered the drops of dew?

29 Whose womb did the ice come from? Who gave birth to the frost of heaven

30 when water becomes as hard as stone, and the surface of the watery depths is frozen?

31 Can you fasten the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?

32 Can you bring out the constellations in their season and lead the Bear and her cubs?

33 Do you know the laws of heaven? Can you impose its authority on earth?

34 Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

35 Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go? Do they report to you: "Here we are"?

36 Who put wisdom in the heart or gave the mind understanding?

37 Who has the wisdom to number the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of heaven

38 when the dust hardens like cast metal and the clods [of dirt] stick together?

39 Can you hunt prey for a lioness or satisfy the appetite of young lions

40 when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait within their lairs?

41 Who provides the raven's food when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?

English Standard Version ESV

1 Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:

2 “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

3 Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me.

4 “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.

5 Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it?

6 On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone,

7 when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

8 “Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb,

9 when I made clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band,

10 and prescribed limits for it and set bars and doors,

11 and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stayed’?

12 “Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place,

13 that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?

14 It is changed like clay under the seal, and its features stand out like a garment.

15 From the wicked their light is withheld, and their uplifted arm is broken.

16 “Have you entered into the 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 deep darkness?

18 Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth? Declare, if you know all this.

19 “Where is the way to the dwelling of light, and where is the place of darkness,

20 that you may take it to its territory and that you may discern the paths to its home?

21 You know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!

22 “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,

23 which I have reserved for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war?

24 What is the way to the place where the light is distributed, or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?

25 “Who has cleft a channel for the torrents of rain and a way for the thunderbolt,

26 to bring rain on a land where no man is, on the desert in which there is no man,

27 to satisfy the waste and desolate land, and to make the ground sprout with grass?

28 “Has the rain a father, or who has begotten the drops of dew?

29 From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who has given birth to the frost of heaven?

30 The waters become hard like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

31 “Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loose the cords of Orion?

32 Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season, or can you guide the Bear with its children?

33 Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish their rule on the earth?

34 “Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that a flood of waters may cover you?

35 Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go and say to you, ‘Here we are’?

36 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts or given understanding to the mind?

37 Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can tilt the waterskins of the heavens,

38 when the dust runs into a mass and the clods stick fast together?

39 “Can you hunt the prey for the lion, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

40 when they crouch in their dens or lie in wait in their thicket?

41 Who provides for the raven its prey, when its young ones cry to God for help, and wander about for lack of food?