38:1 Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,

38:2 Who is this who darkens counsel By words without knowledge?

38:3 Brace yourself like a man, For I will question you, then you answer me!

38:4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.

38:5 Who determined the measures of it, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?

38:6 Whereupon were the foundations of it fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone,

38:7 When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy?

38:8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it broke forth from the womb,

38:9 When I made clouds the garment of it, Thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,

38:10 Marked out for it my bound, Set bars and doors,

38:11 And said, `Here you may come, but no further; Here shall your proud waves be stayed?`

38:12 Have you commanded the morning in your days, And caused the dawn to know its place;

38:13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, And shake the wicked out of it?

38:14 It is changed as clay under the seal, And stands forth as a garment.

38:15 From the wicked, their light is withheld, The high arm is broken.

38:16 Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

38:17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

38:18 Have you comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if you know it all.

38:19 What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is the place of it,

38:20 That you should take it to the bound of it, That you should discern the paths to the house of it?

38:21 Surely you know, for you were born then, And the number of your days is great!

38:22 Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, Or have you seen the treasures of the hail,

38:23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, Against the day of battle and war?

38:24 By what way is the lightning distributed, Or the east wind scattered on the earth?

38:25 Who has cut a channel for the flood water, Or the path for the thunderstorm;

38:26 To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; On the wilderness, in which there is no man;

38:27 To satisfy the waste and desolate ground, To cause the tender grass to spring forth?

38:28 Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?

38:29 Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it?

38:30 The waters become hard like stone, When the surface of the deep is frozen.

38:31 Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, Or loosen the cords of Orion?

38:32 Can you lead forth the constellations in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?

38:33 Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish the dominion of it over the earth?

38:34 Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?

38:35 Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, `Here we are?`

38:36 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?

38:37 Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of the sky,

38:38 When the dust runs into a mass, And the clods of earth stick together?

38:39 Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

38:40 When they crouch in their dens, And lie in wait in the thicket?