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Job 38

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

²⁶Who makes rain fall where no one lives?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

³⁸rain that hardens the dust into lumps?

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

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

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