Job 38 NKJV

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valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/job/38.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> Reveals His Omnipotence to Job</span></h3><p class="chapter-2"><span class="text Job-38-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said:</span></p> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Who <i>is</i> this who darkens counsel</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-2">By words without knowledge?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Now <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>prepare yourself like a man;</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-3">I will question you, and you shall answer Me.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-4">Tell <i>Me,</i> if you have understanding.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Who determined its measurements?</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-5">Surely you know!</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-5">Or who stretched the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>line upon it?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>To what were its foundations fastened?</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-6">Or who laid its cornerstone,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>When the morning stars sang together,</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-7">And all the sons of God shouted for joy?</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“Or <i>who</i> shut in the sea with doors,</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-8">When it burst forth <i>and</i> issued from the womb;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>When I made the clouds its garment,</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-9">And thick darkness its swaddling band;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>When I fixed My limit for it,</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-10">And set bars and doors;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>When I said,</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-11">‘This far you may come, but no farther,</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-11">And here your proud waves must stop!’</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“Have you commanded the morning since your days <i>began,</i></span><br /><span class="text Job-38-12"><i>And</i> caused the dawn to know its place,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>That it might take hold of the ends of the earth,</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-13">And the wicked be shaken out of it?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>It takes on form like clay <i>under</i> a seal,</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-14">And stands out like a garment.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>From the wicked their light is withheld,</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-15">And the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>upraised arm is broken.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“Have you entered the springs of the sea?</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-16">Or have you walked in search of the depths?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Have the gates of death been <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>revealed to you?</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-17">Or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Have you comprehended the breadth of the earth?</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-18">Tell <i>Me,</i> if you know all this.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“Where <i>is</i> the way <i>to</i> the dwelling of light?</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-19">And darkness, where <i>is</i> its place,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>That you may take it to its territory,</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-20">That you may know the paths <i>to</i> its home?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Do you know <i>it,</i> because you were born then,</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-21">Or <i>because</i> the number of your days <i>is</i> great?</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“Have you entered the treasury of snow,</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-22">Or have you seen the treasury of hail,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Which I have reserved for the time of trouble,</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-23">For the day of battle and war?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>By what way is light <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>diffused,</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-24"><i>Or</i> the east wind scattered over the earth?</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>“Who has divided a channel for the overflowing <i>water,</i></span><br /><span class="text Job-38-25">Or a path for the thunderbolt,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>To cause it to rain on a land <i>where there is</i> no one,</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-26">A wilderness in which <i>there is</i> no man;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>To satisfy the desolate waste,</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-27">And cause to spring forth the growth of tender grass?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Has the rain a father?</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-28">Or who has begotten the drops of dew?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>From whose womb comes the ice?</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-29">And the frost of heaven, who gives it birth?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>The waters harden like stone,</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-30">And the surface of the deep is frozen.<span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>“Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades,<span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span></span><br /><span class="text Job-38-31">Or loose the belt of Orion?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Can you bring out <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[h]</a></span>Mazzaroth in its season?</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-32">Or can you guide <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[i]</a></span>the Great Bear with its cubs?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Do you know the ordinances of the heavens?</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-33">Can you set their dominion over the earth?</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-34">That an abundance of water may cover you?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Can you send out lightnings, that they may go,</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-35">And say to you, ‘Here we <i>are!</i>’?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Who has put wisdom in <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[j]</a></span>the mind?</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-36">Or who has given understanding to the heart?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>Who can number the clouds by wisdom?</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-37">Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>When the dust hardens in clumps,</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-38">And the clods cling together?</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>“Can you hunt the prey for the lion,</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-39">Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>When they crouch in <i>their</i> dens,</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-40"><i>Or</i> lurk in their lairs to lie in wait?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/38-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>Who provides food for the raven,</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-41">When its young ones cry to God,</span><br /><span class="text Job-38-41">And wander about for lack of food?</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-13797a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 38:3">Job 38:3</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>gird up your loins like</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13799b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 38:5">Job 38:5</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>measuring line</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13809c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 38:15">Job 38:15</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>high</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13811d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 38:17">Job 38:17</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>opened</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13818e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 38:24">Job 38:24</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>divided</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13824f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 38:30">Job 38:30</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>imprisoned</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13825g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 38:31">Job 38:31</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>the Seven Stars</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13826h"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 38:32">Job 38:32</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>Constellations</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13826i"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 38:32">Job 38:32</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>Arcturus</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13830j"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 38:36">Job 38:36</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>the inward parts</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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