Job 38:4-14

4 ubi eras quando ponebam fundamenta terrae indica mihi si habes intellegentiam

5 quis posuit mensuras eius si nosti vel quis tetendit super eam lineam

6 super quo bases illius solidatae sunt aut quis dimisit lapidem angularem eius

7 cum me laudarent simul astra matutina et iubilarent omnes filii Dei

8 quis conclusit ostiis mare quando erumpebat quasi de vulva procedens

9 cum ponerem nubem vestimentum eius et caligine illud quasi pannis infantiae obvolverem

10 circumdedi illud terminis meis et posui vectem et ostia

11 et dixi usque huc venies et non procedes amplius et hic confringes tumentes fluctus tuos

12 numquid post ortum tuum praecepisti diluculo et ostendisti aurorae locum suum

13 et tenuisti concutiens extrema terrae et excussisti impios ex ea

14 restituetur ut lutum signaculum et stabit sicut vestimentum

Job 38:4-14 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 38

In this chapter the Lord takes up the controversy with Job; calls upon him to prepare to engage with him in it, and demands an answer to posing questions he puts to him, concerning the earth and the fabric of it, Job 38:1-7; concerning the sea, compared to an infant in embryo, at its birth, in its swaddling bands and cradle, Job 38:8-11; concerning the morning light, its spread and influence, Job 38:12-15; concerning the springs of the sea, the dark parts of the earth, the place both of light and darkness, Job 38:16-21; concerning the various meteors, snow, hail, rain, thunder, lightning, and the influences of the stars, Job 38:22-38; and concerning provision for lions and ravens, Job 38:40,41.