Job 38

And God answered Job from the storm and said, 2 “Who {is} this, darkening counsel by words without knowledge? 3 Now gird up your loins like a man, and I will question you and you will inform me. \* 4 Where were you in my founding of the earth? Declare, if you know understanding. 5 Who set its measurements? If you know! Or who stretched a line over it? \* 6 On what were its foundations sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone, 7 in the singing together of the stars of the morning, and all the sons of God shouted? \* 8 And {who} enclosed the sea with doors in its issuing from the womb, {when} it came out, 9 in my making the cloud its clothing and thick darkness its swaddling bands? \* 10 And I broke upon it my boundary, and I set a bar and doors, 11 and I said, ‘Unto here you will come, but you will not continue, and here one has set for the pride of your waves.’ \* 12 From your days, have you commanded the morning? Have you caused the dawn to know its place, 13 for taking hold of the edges of the earth, and the wicked are shaken from it? \* 14 It is changed like clay {under} a seal, and they stand out like a garment. 15 And from the wicked, their light is withheld, and their high arm is broken. \* 16 Have you gone to the springs of the sea? Or have you walked around 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 given attention to the breadths of the earth? Declare, if you know all of it. \* 19 Where {is} this, the way {to where} light dwells, and darkness, where {is} this, its place, 20 that you would take it to its territory, and that you would perceive the paths of its house? 21 You know, for you were born then, and the number of your days {is} many! \* 22 Have you entered into the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail, 23 which I keep for a time of trouble, for a day of battle and war? 24 Where {is} this, the way {to where} the light is distributed, the east wind scatters over the earth? \* 25 Who cut a channel for the downpour, or a way for the lightning of the thunder, 26 to cause rain upon a land {where} no man {is}, a wilderness {with} no man in it, 27 to satisfy the waste and the desolation, and to cause the shoot of the grass to sprout? \* 28 Is there a father to the rain? Or who begets the drops of dew? 29 From whose womb does ice come? And the frost of the skies, who bears it? 30 As {under} stone, the waters hide themselves, and the face of the deep freezes. \* 31 Will you tie the bands of the Pleiades, or loose the cords of Orion? 32 Will you bring out Mazzaroth in its time? Or will you guide the Bear with its sons? 33 Do you know the statutes of the skies? If you will establish its rule over the earth? \* 34 Will you raise your voice to the cloud and an abundance of waters will cover you? 35 Will you send out lightning bolts and they will go, and they will say to you, ‘Behold, us’? \* 36 Who has put wisdom in the clouds, or who has given understanding to the mist? 37 Who by wisdom will number the clouds? Or the water skins of the skies, who will tilt 38 in the hardening of the dust into a mass, and the clods stick together? \* 39 Will you hunt prey for a lioness or satisfy the life of {her} cubs 40 when they crouch in their dens, {when} they lie in wait in a shelter for an ambush? \* 41 Who provides to the raven its food when its children cry out to God, {when} they stagger without food? \*