bbe - Job:38

bbe@Job:38:1 @And the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said,

bbe@Job:38:2 @Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?

bbe@Job:38:3 @Get your strength together like a man of war; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

bbe@Job:38:4 @Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.

bbe@Job:38:5 @By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?

bbe@Job:38:6 @On what were its pillars based, or who put down its angle-stone,

bbe@Job:38:7 @When the morning stars made songs together, and all the sons of the gods gave cries of joy?

bbe@Job:38:8 @Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;

bbe@Job:38:9 @When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it,

bbe@Job:38:10 @Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;

bbe@Job:38:11 @And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?

bbe@Job:38:12 @Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;

bbe@Job:38:13 @So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?

bbe@Job:38:14 @It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe;

bbe@Job:38:15 @And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken.

bbe@Job:38:16 @Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?

bbe@Job:38:17 @Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?

bbe@Job:38:18 @Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all.

bbe@Job:38:19 @Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

bbe@Job:38:20 @So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house?

bbe@Job:38:21 @No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great.

bbe@Job:38:22 @Have you come into the secret place of snow, or have you seen the store-houses of the ice-drops,

bbe@Job:38:23 @Which I have kept for the time of trouble, for the day of war and fighting?

bbe@Job:38:24 @Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?

bbe@Job:38:25 @By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder;

bbe@Job:38:26 @Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;

bbe@Job:38:27 @To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?

bbe@Job:38:28 @Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist?

bbe@Job:38:29 @Out of whose body came the ice? and who gave birth to the cold mist of heaven?

bbe@Job:38:30 @The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.

bbe@Job:38:31 @Are the bands of the Pleiades fixed by you, or are the cords of Orion made loose?

bbe@Job:38:32 @Do you make Mazzaroth come out in its right time, or are the Bear and its children guided by you?

bbe@Job:38:33 @Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?

bbe@Job:38:34 @Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?

bbe@Job:38:35 @Do you send out the thunder-flames, so that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?

bbe@Job:38:36 @Who has put wisdom in the high clouds, or given knowledge to the lights of the north?

bbe@Job:38:37 @By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth,

bbe@Job:38:38 @When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses?

bbe@Job:38:39 @Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough,

bbe@Job:38:40 @When they are stretched out in their holes, and are waiting in the brushwood?

bbe@Job:38:41 @Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food?