Job 38

Job 38:1

Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:

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Job 38:2

“Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?

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Job 38:3

Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.

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answer thou me Heb. make me know

Job 38:4

Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.

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hast Heb. knowest

Job 38:5

Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?

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Job 38:6

On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone,

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while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

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Job 38:8

Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

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Job 38:9

when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,

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Job 38:10

when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,

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Job 38:11

and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?

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thy proud waves Heb. the pride of thy waves

Job 38:12

In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,

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Job 38:13

that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?

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Job 38:14

The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.

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Job 38:15

Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.

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Job 38:16

Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?

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Job 38:17

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

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Job 38:18

Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.

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Job 38:19

Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,

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Job 38:20

so you can lead it back to its border? Do you know the paths to its home?

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it to or , it at

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Surely you know, for you were already born! And the number of your days is great!

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Job 38:22

Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,

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Job 38:23

which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of war and battle?

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Job 38:24

In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?

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Job 38:25

Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,

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Job 38:26

to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,

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To cause It is well known that rain falls copiously in thunder storms. The flash is first seen , the clap is next heard , and last the rain descends; though in fact they all take place at the same time. The lightning tra#### Verses all space in no perceivable succession of time. Sound is propagated at the rate of 1 ,142 feet in a second. Rain travels still more slowly , and will be seen sooner or later according to the weight of the drops , and the distance of the cloud. Now as water is composed of two elastic airs or gases , called oxygen and hydrogen , in the proportion of 88+ of the former and 11 , 3/4 of the latter in 100 parts , the electric spark , or matter of lightning , passing through the atmosphere , ignites and decomposes those gases , which explode; and the water falls down in the form of rain. This explosion , as well as the rushing in of the circumambient air to restore the equilibrium , will account for the clap and peal; and thus by the lightning of thunder God causes it to rain on the earth.

Job 38:27

to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?

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Job 38:28

Does the rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?

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Job 38:29

From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,

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when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?

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frozen Heb. taken

Job 38:31

Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?

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Orion or , Cesil

Job 38:32

Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear and her cubs?

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Job 38:33

Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?

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Job 38:34

Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

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Job 38:35

Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?

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Job 38:36

Who has put wisdom in the heart or given understanding to the mind?

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Job 38:37

Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens

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stay Heb. cause to lie down

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when the dust hardens into a mass and the clods of earth stick together?

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groweth into hardness or , is turned into mire , Heb. is poured

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Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions

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appetite Heb. life

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when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait in the thicket?

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Job 38:41

Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?

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