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39">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">The Lord Answers Job</h3>1Then out of the storm the Lord spoke to Job.<h5 class="sp">The Lord</h5>2Who are you to question my wisdomwith your ignorant, empty words?3Now stand up straightand 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?7<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.38.7!x.1" class="notelink x-link"></a> In the dawn of that day the stars sang together,and the heavenly beings<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.38.7!f.2" class="notelink f-link">+</a> shouted for joy.8<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.38.8!x.1" class="notelink x-link"></a> Who closed the gates to hold back the sea<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.38.8!f.2" class="notelink f-link">+</a> when it burst from the womb of the earth?9It was I who covered the sea with cloudsand wrapped it in darkness.10I marked a boundary for the seaand 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 lifecommanded a day to dawn?13Have you ordered the dawn to seize the earthand shake the wicked from their hiding places?14Daylight makes the hills and valleys stand outlike the folds of a garment,clear as the imprint of a seal on clay.15The light of day is too bright for the wickedand 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 gatesthat 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 fromor 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 oldand 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 rainand 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 stoneand freeze the face of the sea?31<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.38.31!x.1" class="notelink x-link"></a> Can you tie the Pleiades togetheror loosen the bonds that hold Orion?32Can you guide the stars season by seasonand 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 cloudsand 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<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.38.36!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> when the Nile will flood,or who tells the rooster that rain will fall?<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.38.36!f.2" class="notelink f-link">+</a> 37Who is wise enough to count the cloudsand 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 lions40when they hide in their caves,or lie in wait in their dens?41Who is it that feeds the ravenswhen they wander about hungry,when their young cry to me for food?<a name="fn"></a> Footnotes: <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">38.7: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">heavenly beings: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See 1.6.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">38.8: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">to hold back the sea: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See 26.12.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">38.36: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">ibis: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">A bird in ancient Egypt that was believed to announce the flooding of the Nile River.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">38.36: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Verse 36 in Hebrew is unclear.</char></note></div></div> <div align="center">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition) © 1992 American Bible Society. 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