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Certainly you know!Who stretched a measuring line across it? <A name="7"></a><a href="/job/38-6.htm">6</a>What supports its foundations?Or who laid its cornerstone <A name="8"></a><a href="/job/38-7.htm">7</a>while the morning stars sang togetherand all the sons of God<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.38.7.1">a</a> shouted for joy?</blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"> <A name="9"></a><a href="/job/38-8.htm">8</a>Who enclosed the sea behind doorswhen it burst from the womb, <A name="10"></a><a href="/job/38-9.htm">9</a>when I made the clouds its garmentand total darkness its blanket,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Job.38.9.1">a</a> <a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.38.9.1">a</a> <A name="11"></a><a href="/job/38-10.htm">10</a>when I determined its boundaries<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Job.38.10.1">A</a>and put its bars and doors in place, <A name="12"></a><a href="/job/38-11.htm">11</a>when I declared, “You may come this far, but no farther;your proud waves stop here”?</blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"> <A name="13"></a><a href="/job/38-12.htm">12</a>Have you ever in your life commanded the morningor assigned the dawn its place, <A name="14"></a><a href="/job/38-13.htm">13</a>so it may seize the edges of the earthand shake the wicked out of it? <A name="15"></a><a href="/job/38-14.htm">14</a>The earth is changed as clay is by a seal;its hills stand out like the folds of a garment. <A name="16"></a><a href="/job/38-15.htm">15</a>Light<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Job.38.15.1">A</a> is withheld from the wicked,and the arm raised in violence is broken.</blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"> <A name="17"></a><a href="/job/38-16.htm">16</a>Have you traveled to the sources of the seaor walked in the depths of the oceans? <A name="18"></a><a href="/job/38-17.htm">17</a>Have the gates<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.38.17.1">a</a> of death been revealed to you?Have you seen the gates of deep darkness? <A name="19"></a><a href="/job/38-18.htm">18</a>Have you comprehended the extent of the earth?Tell me, if you know all this.</blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"> <A name="20"></a><a href="/job/38-19.htm">19</a>Where is the road to the home of light?Do you know where darkness lives, <A name="21"></a><a href="/job/38-20.htm">20</a>so you can lead it back to its border?Are you familiar with the paths to its home? <A name="22"></a><a href="/job/38-21.htm">21</a>Don’t you know? You were already born;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.38.21.1">a</a>you have lived so long!<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Job.38.21.1">A</a> <A name="23"></a><a href="/job/38-22.htm">22</a>Have you entered the place where the snow is stored?Or have you seen the storehouses of hail,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.38.22.1">a</a> <A name="24"></a><a href="/job/38-23.htm">23</a>which I hold in reserve for times of trouble,for the day of warfare and battle?<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.38.23.1">a</a> <A name="25"></a><a href="/job/38-24.htm">24</a>What road leads to the place where light is dispersed?<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Job.38.24.1">A</a>Where is the source of the east wind that spreads across the earth?</blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"> <A name="26"></a><a href="/job/38-25.htm">25</a>Who cuts a channel for the flooding rainor clears the way for lightning, <A name="27"></a><a href="/job/38-26.htm">26</a>to bring rain on an uninhabited land,on a desert with no human life,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Job.38.26.1">A</a> <A name="28"></a><a href="/job/38-27.htm">27</a>to satisfy the parched wastelandand cause the grass to sprout?<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.38.27.1">a</a> <A name="29"></a><a href="/job/38-28.htm">28</a>Does the rain have a father?Who fathered the drops of dew?<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.38.28.1">a</a> <A name="30"></a><a href="/job/38-29.htm">29</a>Whose womb did the ice come from?Who gave birth to the frost of heaven <A name="31"></a><a href="/job/38-30.htm">30</a>when water becomes as hard as stone,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Job.38.30.1">A</a>and the surface of the watery depths is frozen?<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.38.30.1">a</a></blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"> <A name="32"></a><a href="/job/38-31.htm">31</a>Can you fasten the chains of the Pleiadesor loosen the belt of Orion? <A name="33"></a><a href="/job/38-32.htm">32</a>Can you bring out the constellations<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Job.38.32.1">A</a> in their seasonand lead the Bear<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Job.38.32.2">B</a> and her cubs?<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.38.32.1">a</a> <A name="34"></a><a href="/job/38-33.htm">33</a>Do you know the laws<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.38.33.1">a</a> of heaven?Can you impose its<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Job.38.33.1">A</a> authority on earth? <A name="35"></a><a href="/job/38-34.htm">34</a>Can you command<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Job.38.34.1">A</a> the cloudsso that a flood of water covers you?<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.38.34.1">a</a> <A name="36"></a><a href="/job/38-35.htm">35</a>Can you send out lightning<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.38.35.1">a</a> bolts, and they go?Do they report to you, “Here we are”?</blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"> <A name="37"></a><a href="/job/38-36.htm">36</a>Who put wisdom<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.38.36.1">a</a> in the heart<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Job.38.36.1">A</a>or gave the mind understanding? <A name="38"></a><a href="/job/38-37.htm">37</a>Who has the wisdom to number the clouds?Or who can tilt the water jars of heaven <A name="39"></a><a href="/job/38-38.htm">38</a>when the dust hardens like cast metaland the clods of dirt stick together?</blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"> <A name="40"></a><a href="/job/38-39.htm">39</a>Can you hunt prey for a lionessor satisfy the appetite of young lions<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.38.39.1">a</a> <A name="41"></a><a href="/job/38-40.htm">40</a>when they crouch in their densand lie in wait within their lairs? <a href="/job/38-41.htm">41</a>Who provides the raven’s food<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.38.41.1">a</a>when its young cry out to Godand wander about for lack of food?</blockquote> <section id="footnotes-Job.38" class="fnSection"><aside id="fn.Job.38.4.1"><a href="#start-Job.38.4">38:4</a> Lit know</aside><aside id="fn.Job.38.9.1"><a href="#start-Job.38.9">38:9</a> Lit swaddling clothes</aside><aside id="fn.Job.38.10.1"><a href="#start-Job.38.10">38:10</a> Lit I broke my statute on it</aside><aside id="fn.Job.38.15.1"><a href="#start-Job.38.15">38:15</a> Lit Their light</aside><aside id="fn.Job.38.21.1"><a href="#start-Job.38.21">38:21</a> Lit born; the number of your days is great</aside><aside id="fn.Job.38.24.1"><a href="#start-Job.38.24">38:24</a> Or where lightning is distributed</aside><aside id="fn.Job.38.26.1"><a href="#start-Job.38.26">38:26</a> Lit no man in it</aside><aside id="fn.Job.38.30.1"><a href="#start-Job.38.30">38:30</a> Lit water hides itself as the stone</aside><aside id="fn.Job.38.32.1"><a href="#start-Job.38.32">38:32</a> Or Mazzaroth ; Hb obscure</aside><aside id="fn.Job.38.32.2"><a href="#start-Job.38.32">38:32</a> Or lead Aldebaran</aside><aside id="fn.Job.38.33.1"><a href="#start-Job.38.33">38:33</a> Or God’s</aside><aside id="fn.Job.38.34.1"><a href="#start-Job.38.34">38:34</a> Lit lift up your voice to</aside><aside id="fn.Job.38.36.1"><a href="#start-Job.38.36">38:36</a> Or the inner self ; Ps 51:6</aside> <section id="cross-references-Job.38" class="xrfSection"><aside id="xrf.Job.38.1.1"><a href="#start-Job.38.1">38:1</a> 2Kg 2:11; Jb 40:6; Ezk 13:11,13</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.38.2.1"><a href="#start-Job.38.2">38:2</a> Jb 34:35; 35:16; 42:3</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.38.3.1"><a href="#start-Job.38.3">38:3</a> 2Sm 11:7; Jb 40:7; 42:4</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.38.4.1"><a href="#start-Job.38.4">38:4</a> Ps 89:11; 102:25; 104:5</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.38.7.1"><a href="#start-Job.38.7">38:7</a> Gn 6:2,4; Jb 1:6; 2:1</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.38.9.1"><a href="#start-Job.38.9">38:9</a> 2Sm 22:10; Jb 22:13; 37:11</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.38.17.1"><a href="#start-Job.38.17">38:17</a> Ps 9:13; 107:18; Is 38:10</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.38.21.1"><a href="#start-Job.38.21">38:21</a> Jb 15:7; Ps 90:2; Pr 8:25</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.38.22.1"><a href="#start-Job.38.22">38:22</a> Ex 9:18; Ps 105:32; Is 28:17</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.38.23.1"><a href="#start-Job.38.23">38:23</a> Jos 10:11; Is 30:30; Rv 16:21</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.38.27.1"><a href="#start-Job.38.27">38:27</a> Gn 1:11; 2Sm 23:4; Ps 107:35</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.38.28.1"><a href="#start-Job.38.28">38:28</a> Jb 5:10; Ps 147:8; Jr 14:22</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.38.30.1"><a href="#start-Job.38.29">38:29-30</a> Jb 37:10; Ps 147:16–17</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.38.32.1"><a href="#start-Job.38.31">38:31-32</a> Jb 9:9; Is 40:26; Am 5:8</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.38.33.1"><a href="#start-Job.38.33">38:33</a> Jr 31:35; 33:25</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.38.34.1"><a href="#start-Job.38.34">38:34</a> Jb 22:11; Ps 69:1–2; Lm 3:54</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.38.35.1"><a href="#start-Job.38.35">38:35</a> Ex 19:16; Ps 18:14; 97:4</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.38.36.1"><a href="#start-Job.38.36">38:36</a> Jb 28:12,18,20; Ps 51:6; Ec 2:26</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.38.39.1"><a href="#start-Job.38.39">38:39</a> Ps 104:21; 145:15–16</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.38.41.1"><a href="#start-Job.38.41">38:41</a> 1Kg 17:4,6; Ps 147:9; Lk 12:24</aside> <section id="study-notes-Job.38" class="snSection"> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Christian Standard Bible. 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