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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 MSB</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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">MSB</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="/msb/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">&#9668;</a> Job 38 <a href="../job/39.htm" title="Job 39">&#9658;</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">Majority Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/bsb/heb/job/38.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters">&nbsp;Par&nbsp;&#9662;&nbsp;</a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The LORD Challenges Job<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 whirlwind and said: <A name="3"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>&#8220;Who is this who obscures My counsel <p class="indent2"> by words without knowledge?<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> <A name="4"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Now brace yourself<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> like a man; <p class="indent2"> I will question you, and you shall inform Me.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> <A name="5"></a><p class="indent1"><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? <p class="indent2"> Tell Me, if you have understanding. <A name="6"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! <p class="indent2"> Or who stretched a measuring line across it? <A name="7"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>On what were its foundations set, <p class="indent2"> or who laid its cornerstone,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> <A name="8"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>while the morning stars sang together <p class="indent2"> and all the sons of God shouted for joy? <A name="9"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Who enclosed the sea behind doors <p class="indent2"> when it burst forth from the womb, <A name="10"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>when I made the clouds its garment <p class="indent2"> and thick darkness its blanket, <A name="11"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>when I fixed its boundaries <p class="indent2"> and set in place its bars and doors, <A name="12"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and I declared: &#8216;You may come this far, but no farther; <p class="indent2"> here your proud waves must stop&#8217;? <A name="13"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>In your days, have you commanded the morning <p class="indent2"> or assigned the dawn its place, <A name="14"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>that it might spread to the ends of the earth <p class="indent2"> and shake the wicked out of it? <A name="15"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; <p class="indent2"> its hills stand out like the folds of a garment. <A name="16"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Light is withheld from the wicked, <p class="indent2"> and their upraised arm is broken. <A name="17"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea <p class="indent2"> or walked in the trenches of the deep? <A name="18"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Have the gates of death been revealed to you? <p class="indent2"> Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death? <A name="19"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? <p class="indent2"> Tell Me, if you know all this. <A name="20"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Where is the way to the home of light? <p class="indent2"> Do you know where darkness resides, <A name="21"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>so you can lead it back to its border? <p class="indent2"> Do you know the paths to its home? <A name="22"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Surely you know, for you were already born! <p class="indent2"> And the number of your days is great! <A name="23"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Have you entered the storehouses of snow <p class="indent2"> or observed the storehouses of hail, <A name="24"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, <p class="indent2"> for the day of war and battle? <A name="25"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>In which direction is the lightning dispersed, <p class="indent2"> or the east wind scattered over the earth? <A name="26"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Who cuts a channel for the flood <p class="indent2"> or clears a path for the thunderbolt, <A name="27"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>to bring rain on a barren land, <p class="indent2"> on a desert where no man lives, <A name="28"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>to satisfy the parched wasteland <p class="indent2"> and make it sprout with tender grass? <A name="29"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Does the rain have a father? <p class="indent2"> Who has begotten the drops of dew? <A name="30"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>From whose womb does the ice emerge? <p class="indent2"> Who gives birth to the frost from heaven, <A name="31"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>when the waters become hard as stone <p class="indent2"> and the surface of the deep is frozen? <A name="32"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades <p class="indent2"> or loosen the belt of Orion? <A name="33"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">e</a></span> <p class="indent2"> or lead out the Bear<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">f</a></span> and her cubs? <A name="34"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Do you know the laws of the heavens? <p class="indent2"> Can you set their dominion over the earth? <A name="35"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Can you command the clouds <p class="indent2"> so that a flood of water covers you? <A name="36"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? <p class="indent2"> Do they report to you, &#8216;Here we are&#8217;? <A name="37"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Who has put wisdom in the heart<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">g</a></span> <p class="indent2"> or given understanding to the mind? <A name="38"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? <p class="indent2"> Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens <A name="39"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>when the dust hardens into a mass <p class="indent2"> and the clods of earth stick together? <A name="40"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Can you hunt the prey for a lioness <p class="indent2"> or satisfy the hunger of young lions <A name="41"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>when they crouch in their dens <p class="indent2"> and lie in wait in the thicket? <p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>Who provides food for the raven <p class="indent2"> when its young cry out to God <p class="indent2"> as they wander about for lack of food?</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Cited in <a href="../job/42.htm#3">Job 42:3</a><br><span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Hebrew <i>gird up your loins</i><br><span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Cited in <a href="../job/42.htm#4">Job 42:4</a><br><span class="fnverse">6</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Or <i>who set its core in place</i><br><span class="fnverse">32</span> <span class="footnotesbot">e</span> Or <i>bring forth Mazzaroth in its season</i><br><span class="fnverse">32</span> <span class="footnotesbot">f</span> Or <i>Leo</i> or <i>Arcturus</i><br><span class="fnverse">36</span> <span class="footnotesbot">g</span> Or <i>Who has given the ibis wisdom</i>, that is, wisdom about the flooding of the Nile<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="//majoritybible.com">The Holy Bible, Majority Standard Bible, MSB</a> is produced in cooperation with <a href="//biblehub.com">Bible Hub</a>, <a href="//discoverybible.com">Discovery Bible</a>, <a href="//openbible.com">OpenBible.com</a>, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee. 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