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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">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><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: <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Who is this that darkeneth counsel</div><div class="po2">By words without knowledge?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Gird up now thy loins like a man;</div><div class="po2">For I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto Me.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?</div><div class="po2">Declare, if thou hast the understanding.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest?</div><div class="po2">Or who stretched the line upon it?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Whereupon were the foundations thereof fastened?</div><div class="po2">Or who laid the corner-stone thereof,</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>When the morning stars sang together,</div><div class="po2">And all the sons of God shouted for joy?</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Or who shut up the sea with doors,</div><div class="po2">When it broke forth, and issued out of the womb;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>When I made the cloud the garment thereof,</div><div class="po2">And thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And prescribed for it My decree,</div><div class="po2">And set bars and doors,</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And said: ‘Thus far shalt thou come, but no further;</div><div class="po2">And here shall thy proud waves be stayed’?</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days began,</div><div class="po2">And caused the dayspring to know its place;</div> <div class="po1"><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,</div><div class="po2">And the wicked be shaken out of it?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>It is changed as clay under the seal;</div><div class="po2">And they stand as a garment.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But from the wicked their light is withholden,</div><div class="po2">And the high arm is broken.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea?</div><div class="po2">Or hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee?</div><div class="po2">Or hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Hast thou surveyed unto the breadths of the earth?</div><div class="po2">Declare, if thou knowest it all.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Where is the way to the dwelling of light,</div><div class="po2">And as for darkness, where is the place thereof;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof,</div><div class="po2">And that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Thou knowest it, for thou wast then born,</div><div class="po2">And the number of thy days is great!</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Hast thou entered the treasuries of the snow,</div><div class="po2">Or hast thou seen the treasuries of the hail,</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Which I have reserved against the time of trouble,</div><div class="po2">Against the day of battle and war?</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>By what way is the light parted,</div><div class="po2">Or the east wind scattered upon the earth?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Who hath cleft a channel for the waterflood,</div><div class="po2">Or a way for the lightning of the thunder;</div> <div class="po1"><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,</div><div class="po2">On the wilderness, wherein there is no man;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>To satisfy the desolate and waste ground,</div><div class="po2">And to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Hath the rain a father?</div><div class="po2">Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Out of whose womb came the ice?</div><div class="po2">And the hoar-frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>The waters are congealed like stone,</div><div class="po2">And the face of the deep is frozen.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Canst thou bind the chains of the Pleiades,</div><div class="po2">Or loose the bands of Orion?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Canst thou lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season?</div><div class="po2">Or canst thou guide the Bear with her sons?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens?</div><div class="po2">Canst thou establish the dominion thereof in the earth?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds,</div><div class="po2">That abundance of waters may cover thee?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Canst thou send forth lightnings, that they may go,</div><div class="po2">And say unto thee: ‘Here we are’?</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts?</div><div class="po2">Or who hath given understanding to the mind?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>Who can number the clouds by wisdom?</div><div class="po2">Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven,</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>When the dust runneth into a mass,</div><div class="po2">And the clods cleave fast together?</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lioness?</div><div class="po2">Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>When they couch in their dens,</div><div class="po2">And abide in the covert to lie in wait?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/38-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>Who provideth for the raven his prey,</div><div class="po2">When his young ones cry unto God, and wander for lack of food?</div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<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" 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