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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Job 38 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/job/38.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/job/38-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > Job 38</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../job/37.htm" title="Job 37">◄</a> Job 38 <a href="../job/39.htm" title="Job 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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/job/38-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The LORD Challenges Job<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And Jehovah will answer Job from the whirlwind, and he will say,<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Who this darkening counsel in words without knowledge?<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Gird now thy loins as a man; and I will ask thee, and make thou known to me.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Where wert thou in my founding the earth? Announce, if thou knewest understanding.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Who set its measures, if thou shalt know? or who stretched the line upon it?<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Upon what were its bases impressed? or who placed its corner-stone?<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>In the rejoicing together of the stars of morning, and all the sons of God will shout for joy?<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And he will hedge in the sea with doors in its breaking forth, going forth from the womb.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>In my making the cloud its garment, and darkness its bandage:<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And I shall break upon it my law, and I shall set bars and doors;<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And saying, Even to this shalt thou come, and thou shalt not add: and here in the pride of thy waves, stand thou.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>In thy days didst thou command the morning? and didst thou make the dawning know its place?<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>To take hold upon the wings of the earth, and the unjust shall be shaken out of it?<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>It shall be turned as clay to the seal; and they shall stand as clothing.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And their light shall be withheld from the unjust, and the high arm shall be broken.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Didst thou go even to the fountains of the sea? and didst thou go about in searching the depth?<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Were the gates of death uncovered to thee? and shalt thou see the gates of the shadow of death?<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Wilt thou consider even to the breadth of the earth? Announce if thou knewest all of it.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Where the way light shall dwell? and darkness, where its place?<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>That thou shalt take it to its bound, and that thou shalt understand the beaten paths of its house?<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Knewest thou? for shalt thou then be born, and the number of thy days great?<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Didst thou come into the treasures of snow? and shalt thou see the treasures of hail,<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Which I kept back for the time of straits, for the day of encounter and war?<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Where that way the light will divide, it will scatter the east wind upon the earth?<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Who divided a channel for the overflowing, and a way for the lightning of the voices?<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>To cause it to rain upon the earth, not a man; the wilderness not a man in it?<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>To satisfy the desolation and burning, and to cause the springing up of the finding of the tender grass?<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Is there a father to the rain? or who begat the reservoirs of the dew?<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>From whose womb came forth the ice? and the hoarfrost of the heavens, who brought it forth?<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>The waters shall be hid as a stone, and the face of the depth will be taken.<p> <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Wilt thou bind the bands of the cluster, or wilt thou open the cords of Orion?<p> <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Wilt thou bring forth the twelve signs in its time? and the great bear and his sons, wilt thou guide them?<p> <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Knewest thou the laws of the heavens? or wilt thou set up its dominion in the earth?<p> <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Wilt thou lift up thy voice to the cloud, and abundance of waters shall cover thee?<p> <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Shalt thou send lightnings, and shall they go and shall they say to thee, Behold us?<p> <A name="37"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Who put wisdom in the reins? or who gave understanding to the mind?<p> <A name="38"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>Who shall number the clouds in wisdom? and who shall cause the bottles of heaven to lie down?<p> <A name="39"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>In the pouring out of the dust into a melted mass, and the clods will adhere.<p> <A name="40"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? and wilt thou fill up the life of the young lions?<p> <A name="41"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>For they will sink down in the dwellings; they will dwell in the thicket to lie in wait.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>Who will prepare for the raven his food? for his young will cry to God; they will wander without food.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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