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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 GWT</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="../">GWT</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">GOD'S WORD® Translation</div><div class="chap"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>"Who is this that belittles my advice with words that do not show any knowledge [about it]?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Brace yourself like a man! I will ask you, and you will teach 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 foundation of the earth? Tell me if you have [such] insight.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Who determined its dimensions? Certainly, you know! Who stretched a measuring line over it?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>On what were its footings sunk? 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>"Who shut the sea behind gates when it burst through and came out of the womb,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>when I clothed it with clouds and wrapped it up in dark clouds,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>when I set a limit for it and put up bars and gates,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>when I said, 'You may come this far but no farther. Here your proud waves will stop'?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>"Have you ever given orders to the morning or assigned a place for the dawn</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>so that it could grab the earth by its edges and shake wicked people out of it?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The earth changes like clay stamped by a seal, and [parts of it] stand out like [folds in] clothing.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Wicked people are deprived of their light, and an arm raised [in victory] is broken.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Have you gone to the springs in the sea or walked through the valleys of the ocean depths?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Have the gateways to death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gateways to total darkness?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Have you [even] considered how wide the earth is? Tell me, if you know all of this!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>"What is the way to the place where light lives? Where is the home of darkness</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>so that you may lead it to its territory, so that you may know the path to its home?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>You must know because you were born then and have lived such a long time!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Have you been to the warehouses where snow is stored or seen the warehouses for hail</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>that I have stored up for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Which is the way to the place where light is scattered and the east wind is spread across the earth?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>"Who made a channel for the flooding rains and a path for the thunderstorms</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>to bring rain on a land where no one lives, on a desert where there are no humans,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>to saturate the desolate wasteland in order to make it sprout with grass?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Does the rain have a father? Who gave birth to the dewdrops?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>From whose womb came the ice, and who has given birth to the frost in the air?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>The water hardens like a stone, and the surface of the ocean freezes over.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>"Can you connect the chains of the [constellation] Pleiades or untie the ropes of Orion?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Can you bring out the constellations at the right time or guide Ursa Major with its 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 sky or make them rule the earth?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Can you call to the clouds and have a flood of water cover you?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Can you send lightning flashes so that they may go and say to you, 'Here we are'?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Who put wisdom in the heart or gave understanding to the mind? </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>Who is wise enough to count the clouds or pour out the water jars of heaven</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>when the dirt hardens into clumps and the soil clings together?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>"Can you hunt prey for the lioness and satisfy the hunger of her cubs</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>as they crouch in their dens and lie ready to ambush from their lairs?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>"Who provides food for the crow when its young ones cry to God and wander around in need of food?</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of <a href="//www.godsword.org" target="_top">God's Word to the Nations</a>. 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