Job:38

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* And Jehovah answered out of the tempest and said : * Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge ? * Now gird up your loins like a man , for I will question you ; and you teach Me . * Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth ? Declare if you know understanding . * Who has set its measurements , for you know ? Or who has stretched a line on it ? * On what were its bases sunk ? Or who cast its cornerstone , * when the morning stars sang together , and all the sons of God shouted for joy ? * Or who shut up the sea with doors , when it burst out ; it came forth from the womb ? * When I made the clouds to clothe it , and darkness its navel-band ; * and I broke My limit on it , and set bars and doors ; * and I said , You shall come to here , but no further ; and here your proud waves shall be set ? * Have you commanded the morning from your days , and caused the dawn to know its place , * that it might take hold of the wings of the earth ; that the wicked might be shaken out of it ? * It is turned like clay under a seal ; and they stand out like a garment . * And their light is withheld from the wicked , and the high arm shall be broken . * Have you gone to the springs of the sea ; or have you walked in searching of the deep ? * Have death 's gates been opened to you ; or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death ? * Have you comprehended the breadth of the earth ? Declare , if you know it all ! * Where is this , the way light dwells ; and where is the place of darkness , * that you should take it to its boundary , and that you should perceive the paths to its house ? * You know , for then you were born , and the number of your days is great . * Have you entered into the storehouses of the snow , or have you seen the storehouses of the hail , * which I have reserved for the time of distress for the day of battle and war ? * How is it , the way the light is distributed ; and how does the east wind spread itself on the earth ? * Who has cut a channel for the flood ; or a way for the thunderclaps , * to make rain fall on the earth where no man is , a wilderness and no man in it ; * to satisfy the waste and desolation , and to cause the source of grass to sprout ? * Is there a father for the rain ? Or who has given birth to the drops of dew ? * From whose womb comes forth the ice ; and the frost of the heavens , who fathered it ; * the waters hidden like stone , and the face of the deep is captured ? * Can you bind the bands of the Pleiades , or loosen the cords of Orion ? * Can you bring out the constellations in their season ; or can you guide the Bear with its sons ? * Do you know the limits of the heavens ; can you establish their rulership on the earth ? * Can you lift your voice to the clouds , so that floods of water may cover you ? * Can you send lightnings , that they may go and say to you , Here we are ? * Who has put wisdom in the inward parts ; or who has given understanding to the mind ? * Who can by wisdom number the clouds or who can lay down the jars of the heavens , * when the dust is melted into hardness , and the clods cling fast together ? * Will you hunt the prey for the lion , or fill the appetite of the young lions , * when they crouch in dens , and sit in the cover of their hiding place ? * Who provides food for the raven , when its young ones cry to God and wander about without food ?

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