ukjv - Job:38-41

ukjv@Job:38:1 @ Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

ukjv@Job:38:2 @ Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

ukjv@Job:38:3 @ Gird up now your loins like a man; for I will demand of you, and answer you me.

ukjv@Job:38:4 @ Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if you have understanding.

ukjv@Job:38:5 @ Who has laid the measures thereof, if you know? or who has stretched the line upon it?

ukjv@Job:38:6 @ Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;

ukjv@Job:38:7 @ When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

ukjv@Job:38:8 @ Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

ukjv@Job:38:9 @ When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it,

ukjv@Job:38:10 @ And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,

ukjv@Job:38:11 @ And said, Until now shall you come, but no further: and here shall your proud waves be stayed?

ukjv@Job:38:12 @ Have you commanded the morning since your days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;

ukjv@Job:38:13 @ That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?

ukjv@Job:38:14 @ It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.

ukjv@Job:38:15 @ And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the high arm shall be broken.

ukjv@Job:38:16 @ Have you entered into the springs of the sea? or have you walked in the search of the depth?

ukjv@Job:38:17 @ Have the gates of death been opened unto you? or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?

ukjv@Job:38:18 @ Have you perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if you know it all.

ukjv@Job:38:19 @ Where is the way where light dwells? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

ukjv@Job:38:20 @ That you should take it to the bound thereof, and that you should know the paths to the house thereof?

ukjv@Job:38:21 @ Know you it, because you were then born? or because the number of your days is great?

ukjv@Job:38:22 @ Have you entered into the treasures of the snow? or have you seen the treasures of the hail,

ukjv@Job:38:23 @ Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

ukjv@Job:38:24 @ By what way is the light parted, which scatters the east wind upon the earth?

ukjv@Job:38:25 @ Who has divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;

ukjv@Job:38:26 @ To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;

ukjv@Job:38:27 @ To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

ukjv@Job:38:28 @ Has the rain a father? or who has begotten the drops of dew?

ukjv@Job:38:29 @ Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who has gendered it?

ukjv@Job:38:30 @ The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

ukjv@Job:38:31 @ Can you bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

ukjv@Job:38:32 @ Can you bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or can you guide Arcturus with his sons?

ukjv@Job:38:33 @ Know you the ordinances of heaven? can you set the dominion thereof in the earth?

ukjv@Job:38:34 @ Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you?

ukjv@Job:38:35 @ Can you send lightnings, that they may go and say unto you, Here we are?

ukjv@Job:38:36 @ Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? or who has given understanding to the heart?

ukjv@Job:38:37 @ Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,

ukjv@Job:38:38 @ When the dust grows into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?

ukjv@Job:38:39 @ Will you hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,

ukjv@Job:38:40 @ When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?

ukjv@Job:38:41 @ Who provides for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of food.

ukjv@Job:39:1 @ Know you the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or can you mark when the hinds do calve?

ukjv@Job:39:2 @ Can you number the months that they fulfill? or know you the time when they bring forth?

ukjv@Job:39:3 @ They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.

ukjv@Job:39:4 @ Their young ones are in good looking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.

ukjv@Job:39:5 @ Who has sent out the wild ass free? or who has loosed the bands of the wild ass?

ukjv@Job:39:6 @ Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

ukjv@Job:39:7 @ He scorns the multitude of the city, neither regards he the crying of the driver.

ukjv@Job:39:8 @ The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.

ukjv@Job:39:9 @ Will the unicorn (p. ox) be willing to serve you, or abide by your crib?

ukjv@Job:39:10 @ Can you bind the unicorn (p. ox) with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after you?

ukjv@Job:39:11 @ Will you trust him, because his strength is great? or will you leave your labour to him?

ukjv@Job:39:12 @ Will you believe him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather it into your barn?

ukjv@Job:39:13 @ Gave you the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

ukjv@Job:39:14 @ Which left her eggs in the earth, and warms them in dust,

ukjv@Job:39:15 @ And forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.

ukjv@Job:39:16 @ She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not her's: her labour is in vain without fear;

ukjv@Job:39:17 @ Because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.

ukjv@Job:39:18 @ What time she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider.

ukjv@Job:39:19 @ Have you given the horse strength? have you clothed his neck with thunder?

ukjv@Job:39:20 @ Can you make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.

ukjv@Job:39:21 @ He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength: he goes on to meet the armed men.

ukjv@Job:39:22 @ He mocks at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turns he back from the sword.

ukjv@Job:39:23 @ The quiver rattles against him, the glittering spear and the shield.

ukjv@Job:39:24 @ He swallows the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believes he that it is the sound of the trumpet.

ukjv@Job:39:25 @ He says among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smells the battle far off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

ukjv@Job:39:26 @ Does the hawk fly by your wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?

ukjv@Job:39:27 @ Does the eagle mount up at your command, and make her nest on high?

ukjv@Job:39:28 @ She dwells and abides on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.

ukjv@Job:39:29 @ From thence she seeks the prey, and her eyes behold far off.

ukjv@Job:39:30 @ Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she.

ukjv@Job:40:1 @ Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said,

ukjv@Job:40:2 @ Shall he that contends with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproves God, let him answer it.

ukjv@Job:40:3 @ Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

ukjv@Job:40:4 @ Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer you? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.

ukjv@Job:40:5 @ Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.

ukjv@Job:40:6 @ Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

ukjv@Job:40:7 @ Gird up your loins now like a man: I will demand of you, and declare you unto me.

ukjv@Job:40:8 @ Will you also nullify my judgment? will you condemn me, that you may be righteous?

ukjv@Job:40:9 @ Have you an arm like God? or can you thunder with a voice like him?

ukjv@Job:40:10 @ Deck yourself now with majesty and excellency; and array yourself with glory and beauty.

ukjv@Job:40:11 @ Cast abroad the rage of your wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and bring low him.

ukjv@Job:40:12 @ Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

ukjv@Job:40:13 @ Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.

ukjv@Job:40:14 @ Then will I also confess unto you that yours own right hand can save you.

ukjv@Job:40:15 @ Behold now behemoth, which I made with you; he eats grass as an ox.

ukjv@Job:40:16 @ Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.

ukjv@Job:40:17 @ He moves his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.

ukjv@Job:40:18 @ His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.

ukjv@Job:40:19 @ He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.

ukjv@Job:40:20 @ Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.

ukjv@Job:40:21 @ He lies under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.

ukjv@Job:40:22 @ The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.

ukjv@Job:40:23 @ Behold, he drinks up a river, and hastes not: he trusts that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.

ukjv@Job:40:24 @ He takes it with his eyes: his nose pierces through snares.

ukjv@Job:41:1 @ Can you draw out leviathan (p. sea serpent) with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which you let down?

ukjv@Job:41:2 @ Can you put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

ukjv@Job:41:3 @ Will he make many supplications unto you? will he speak soft words unto you?

ukjv@Job:41:4 @ Will he make a covenant with you? will you take him for a servant for ever?

ukjv@Job:41:5 @ Will you play with him as with a bird? or will you bind him for your maidens?

ukjv@Job:41:6 @ Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?

ukjv@Job:41:7 @ Can you fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?

ukjv@Job:41:8 @ Lay yours hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.

ukjv@Job:41:9 @ Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

ukjv@Job:41:10 @ None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?

ukjv@Job:41:11 @ Who has prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.

ukjv@Job:41:12 @ I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.

ukjv@Job:41:13 @ Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?

ukjv@Job:41:14 @ Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.

ukjv@Job:41:15 @ His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

ukjv@Job:41:16 @ One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

ukjv@Job:41:17 @ They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.

ukjv@Job:41:18 @ By his exhaling a light does shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

ukjv@Job:41:19 @ Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.

ukjv@Job:41:20 @ Out of his nostrils goes smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.

ukjv@Job:41:21 @ His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

ukjv@Job:41:22 @ In his neck remains strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.

ukjv@Job:41:23 @ The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.

ukjv@Job:41:24 @ His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.

ukjv@Job:41:25 @ When he raises up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.

ukjv@Job:41:26 @ The sword of him that lays at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the armour of jacket.

ukjv@Job:41:27 @ He esteems iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

ukjv@Job:41:28 @ The arrow cannot make him flee: sling stones are turned with him into stubble.

ukjv@Job:41:29 @ Darts are counted as stubble: he laughs at the shaking of a spear.

ukjv@Job:41:30 @ Sharp stones are under him: he spreads sharp pointed things upon the mire.

ukjv@Job:41:31 @ He makes the deep to boil like a pot: he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

ukjv@Job:41:32 @ He makes a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.

ukjv@Job:41:33 @ Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.

ukjv@Job:41:34 @ He beholds all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.

ukjv@Job:42:1 @ Then Job answered the LORD, and said,