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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 WEB</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" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">WEB</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 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">World English Bible</div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">God Challenges Job</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>"Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>"Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Whereupon were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>"Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth from the womb,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and said, 'Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?'</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>"Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>It is changed as clay under the seal, and stands forth as a garment.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>"Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Have you comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if you know it all.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>"What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, or have you seen the treasures of the hail,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm;</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 where no man is; on the wilderness, in which there is no man;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to spring forth?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>"Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Can you lead forth the constellations in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>"Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, 'Here we are?'</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of the sky,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>"Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. 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