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Iob 38

¹Then the Lord answered Iob out of the whirlewind, and sayd,

²Who is this that darkneth counsell by words without knowledge?

³Gird vp nowe thy loines like a man; for I will demaund of thee, and answere thou me.

⁴Where wast thou when I layd the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast vnderstanding.

⁵Who hath layd the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched the line vpon it?

⁶Wherepuon are the foundations thereof fastened? Or who layd the corner stone thereof?

⁷When the morning starres sang together, and all the sonnes of God shouted for ioy.

⁸Or who shut vp the sea with doores, when it brake foorth as if it had issued out of the wombe?

⁹When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thicke darknesse a swadling band for it,

¹⁰And brake vp for it my decreed place, and set barres and doores,

¹¹And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and heere shall thy proud waues be stayed.

¹²Hast thou commaunded the morning since thy daies? And caused the day-spring to know his place,

¹³That it might take hold of the endes of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?

¹⁴It is turned as clay to the seale, and they stand as a garment.

¹⁵And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arme shalbe broken.

¹⁶Hast thou entred into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?

¹⁷Haue the gates of death bene opened vnto thee? Or hast thou seene the doores of the shadow of death?

¹⁸Hast thou perceiued the breadth of the earth? Declare if thou knowest it all.

¹⁹Where is the way where light dwelleth? And as for darknesse, where is the place thereof?

²⁰That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the pathes to the house thereof.

²¹Knowest thou it, because thou wast then borne? Or because the number of thy daies is great?

²²Hast thou entred into the treasures of the snowe? Or hast thou seene the treasures of the haile,

²³Which I haue reserued against the time of trouble, against the day of battaile and warre?

²⁴By what way is the light parted? Which scattereth the East wind vpon the earth.

²⁵Who hath diuided a water-course for the ouerflowing of waters? Or a way for the lightning of thunder,

²⁶To cause it to raine on the earth, where no man is: on the wildernesse wherein there is no man?

²⁷To satisfie the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herbe to spring forth.

²⁸Hath the raine a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

²⁹Out of whose wombe came the yce? And the hoary frost of heauen, who hath gendred it?

³⁰The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deepe is frozen.

³¹Canst thou bind the sweete influences of Pleiades? Or loose the bands of Orion?

³²Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season, or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sonnes?

³³Knowest thou the ordinances of heauen? Canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?

³⁴Canst thou lift vp thy voice to the cloudes, that abundance of waters may couer thee?

³⁵Canst thou send lightnings, that they may goe, and say vnto thee, Here we are?

³⁶Who hath put wisedome in the inward parts? Or who hath giuen vnderstanding to the heart?

³⁷Who can number the cloudes in wisedome? Or who can stay the bottles of heauen,

³⁸When the dust groweeh into hardnesse, and the clods cleaue fast together?

³⁹Wilt thou hunt the pray for the lyon? Or fill the appetite of the young lyons,

⁴⁰When they couch in their dennes, and abide in the couert to lie in waite?

⁴¹Who prouideth for the rauen his foode? when his young ones cry vnto God, they wander for lacke of meate.