^38:1 Then Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind and said, ^38:2 Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? ^38:3 Gird up now your loins like a man, for I will demand of you and declare you to me.

    ^38:4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding. ^38:5Who determined the measures of it, if you know? Or who stretched the line upon it? ^38:6 Upon what were the foundations of it fastened? Or who laid the cornerstone of it ^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, like it had gone forth out of the womb, ^38:9when I made clouds the garment of it and thick darkness a swaddling-band for it, ^38:10 and marked out for it my bound and set bars and doors, ^38:11 and said, This far you will come, but no farther and here your proud waves will be stayed?

    ^38:12 Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dayspring to know its place ^38:13 that it might take hold of the ends of the earth and the wicked be shaken out of it? ^38:14 It is changed as clay under the seal and all things stand forth as a garment.

    ^38:15 And from the wicked their light is withheld and 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? ^38:18Have you comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if you know it all.

    ^38:19 Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is the place of it ^38:20 that you should take it to the bound of it and that you should discern the paths to the house of it? ^38:21 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 light divided, or the east wind scattered upon the earth? ^38:25 Who has cleft a channel for the water flood, or the way for the lightning of the thunder, ^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 and to cause the tender grass to spring forth?

    ^38:28 Has the rain a father? Or who has bore the drops of dew? ^38:29 Out of whose womb came the ice? And the frost of heaven, who has engendered it? ^38:30 The waters hide themselves and become like stone and the face of the deep is frozen.

    ^38:31 Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? ^38:32 Can you lead forth the constellations in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her train? ^38:33 Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish the dominion of it on 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 and say 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 jugs of heaven ^38:38 when the dust runs into a mass and the clods cleave fast together?

    ^38:39 Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions ^38:40 when they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait? ^38:41 Who provides for the raven his prey when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?