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tell me if thou hast understanding.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest or who hath stretched the line upon it?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Upon what are its bases grounded? or who laid the corner stone thereof,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>When the morning stars praised me together, and all the sons of God made a joyful melody?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>When I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in a mist as in swaddling bands?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And I said: Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and here thou shalt break thy swelling waves.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And didst thou hold the extremities of the earth shaking them, and hast thou shaken the ungodly out of it?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The seal shall be restored as clay, and shall stand as a garment.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>From the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the high arm shall be broken.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Hast thou entered into the depths of the sea, and walked in the lowest parts of the deep?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Have the gates of death been opened to thee, and hast thou seen the darksome doors?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Hast thou considered the breadth of the earth? tell me, if thou knowest all things.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Where is the way where light dwelleth, and where is the place of darkness?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>That thou mayst bring every thing to its own bounds, and understand the paths of the house thereof.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Didst thou know then that thou shouldst be born? and didst thou know the number of thy days?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Hast thou entered into the storehouses of the snow, or hast thou beheld the treasures of the hail:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Which I have prepared for the time of the enemy, against the day of battle and war?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>By what way is the light spread, and heat divided upon the earth?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Who gave a course to violent showers, or a way for noisy thunder:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>That it should rain on the earth without man in the wilderness, where no mortal dwelleth:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>That it should fill the desert and desolate land, and should bring forth green grass?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Who is the father of rain? or who begot the drops of dew?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Out of whose womb came the ice? and the frost from heaven who hath gendered it?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>The waters are hardened like a stone, and the surface of the deep is congealed.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Shalt thou be able to join together the shining stars the Pleiades, or canst thou stop the turning about of Arcturus?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Canst thou bring forth the day star in its time, and make the evening star to rise upon the children of the earth?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Dost thou know the order of heaven, and canst thou set down the reason thereof on the earth?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that an abundance of waters may cover thee?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Canst thou send lightnings, and will they go, and will they return and say to thee: Here we are?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Who hath put wisdom in the heart of man? or who gave the cock understanding?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>Who can declare the order of the heavens, or who can make the harmony of heaven to sleep?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>When was the dust poured on the earth, and the clods fastened together?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Wilt thou take the prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite of her whelps,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>When they couch in the dens and lie in wait in holes?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/job/38-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>Who provideth food for the raven, when her young ones cry to God, wandering about, because they have no meat?</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Douay Rheims Version - Bishop Challoner Revision<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/37.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 37"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 37" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/39.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 39"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 39" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>