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counsel by words without knowledge?</span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Gird up your loins like a man,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I will question you, and you shall declare to me.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Tell me, if you have understanding.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Who determined its measurements—surely you know!</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Or who stretched the line upon it?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>On what were its bases sunk,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">or who laid its cornerstone</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>when the morning stars sang together</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and all the heavenly beings<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15871a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> shouted for joy?</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>“Or who shut in the sea with doors</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">when it burst out from the womb?—</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>when I made the clouds its garment,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and thick darkness its swaddling band,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>and prescribed bounds for it,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and set bars and doors,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and here shall your proud waves be stopped’?</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>“Have you commanded the morning since your days began,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and caused the dawn to know its place,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>so that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the wicked be shaken out of it?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>It is changed like clay under the seal,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and it is dyed<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15878b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> like a garment.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Light is withheld from the wicked,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and their uplifted arm is broken.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>“Have you entered into the springs of the sea,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">or walked in the recesses of the deep?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>Have the gates of death been revealed to you,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Declare, if you know all this.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>“Where is the way to the dwelling of light,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and where is the place of darkness,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>that you may take it to its territory</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and that you may discern the paths to its home?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>Surely you know, for you were born then,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the number of your days is great!</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>“Have you entered the storehouses of the snow,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>which I have reserved for the time of trouble,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for the day of battle and war?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>What is the way to the place where the light is distributed,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>“Who has cut a channel for the torrents of rain,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and a way for the thunderbolt,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>to bring rain on a land where no one lives,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">on the desert, which is empty of human life,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>to satisfy the waste and desolate land,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and to make the ground put forth grass?</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>“Has the rain a father,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">or who has begotten the drops of dew?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>From whose womb did the ice come forth,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and who has given birth to the hoarfrost of heaven?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>The waters become hard like stone,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the face of the deep is frozen.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>“Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">or loose the cords of Orion?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">32</span>Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">or can you guide the Bear with its children?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">33</span>Do you know the ordinances of the heavens?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Can you establish their rule on the earth?</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">34</span>“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">so that a flood of waters may cover you?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">35</span>Can you send forth lightnings, so that they may go</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and say to you, ‘Here we are’?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">36</span>Who has put wisdom in the inward parts,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15900c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">or given understanding to the mind?<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15900d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">37</span>Who has the wisdom to number the clouds?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Or who can tilt the waterskins of the heavens,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">38</span>when the dust runs into a mass</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the clods cling together?</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">39</span>“Can you hunt the prey for the lion,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">40</span>when they crouch in their dens,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">or lie in wait in their covert?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">41</span>Who provides for the raven its prey,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">when its young ones cry to God,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and wander about for lack of food?</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 38:7">Job 38:7</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>sons of God</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 38:14">Job 38:14</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Heb <i>and they stand forth</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 38:36">Job 38:36</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 38:36">Job 38:36</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div 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