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Declare, if thou hast known understanding.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Who placed its measures — if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched out upon it a line?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>On what have its sockets been sunk? Or who hath cast its corner-stone?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>In the singing together of stars of morning, And all sons of God shout for joy,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>In My making a cloud its clothing, And thick darkness its swaddling band,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And say, ‘Hitherto come thou, and add not, And a command is placed On the pride of thy billows.’</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Hast thou commanded morning since thy days? Causest thou the dawn to know its place?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>To take hold on the skirts of the earth, And the wicked are shaken out of it,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>It turneth itself as clay of a seal And they station themselves as clothed.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And withheld from the wicked is their light, And the arm lifted up is broken.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Hast thou come in to springs of the sea? And in searching the deep Hast thou walked up and down?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Revealed to thee were the gates of death? And the gates of death-shade dost thou see?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Thou hast understanding, Even unto the broad places of earth! Declare — if thou hast known it all.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Where [is] this — the way light dwelleth? And darkness, where [is] this — its place?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>That thou dost take it unto its boundary, And that thou dost understand The paths of its house.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Thou hast known — for then thou art born And the number of thy days [are] many!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Hast thou come in unto the treasure of snow? Yea, the treasures of hail dost thou see?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>That I have kept back for a time of distress, For a day of conflict and battle.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Where [is] this, the way light is apportioned? It scattereth an east wind over the earth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Who hath divided for the flood a conduit? And a way for the lightning of the voices?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>To cause [it] to rain on a land — no man, A wilderness — no man in it.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>To satisfy a desolate and waste place, And to cause to shoot up The produce of the tender grass?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>From whose belly came forth the ice? And the hoar-frost of the heavens, Who hath begotten it?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>As a stone waters are hidden, And the face of the deep is captured.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Dost thou bind sweet influences of Kimah? Or the attractions of Kesil dost thou open?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Dost thou bring out Mazzaroth in its season? And Aysh for her sons dost thou comfort?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Hast thou known the statutes of heaven? Or dost thou appoint Its dominion in the earth?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Dost thou lift up to the cloud thy voice, And abundance of water doth cover thee?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Dost thou send out lightnings, and they go And say unto thee, ‘Behold us?’</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Who hath put in the inward parts wisdom? Or who hath given To the covered part understanding?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>Who doth number the clouds by wisdom? And the bottles of the heavens, Who doth cause to lie down,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>In the hardening of dust into hardness, And clods cleave together?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Dost thou hunt for a lion prey? And the desire of young lions fulfil?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>When they bow down in dens — Abide in a thicket for a covert?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>Who doth prepare for a raven his provision, When his young ones cry unto God? 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