nsb - Job:38

nsb@Job:38:1 @ JEHOVAH ANSWERED JOB OUT OF THE WINDSTORM:

nsb@Job:38:2 @ »Who is this that conceals counsel using words without knowledge?

nsb@Job:38:3 @ »Prepare yourself like a man! I will question you, and you shall answer me.

nsb@Job:38:4 @ »Where were you when I laid the earths foundation? Tell me, if you understand.

nsb@Job:38:5 @ »Who determined its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?

nsb@Job:38:6 @ »On what were its foundations set and who laid its cornerstone?

nsb@Job:38:7 @ while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

nsb@Job:38:8 @ »Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb?

nsb@Job:38:9 @ »When I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness,

nsb@Job:38:10 @ when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place,

nsb@Job:38:11 @ when I said: This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt?

nsb@Job:38:12 @ »Have you ever commanded the morning, or shown the dawn its place?

nsb@Job:38:13 @ »It might take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it?

nsb@Job:38:14 @ »The earth takes shape like clay under a seal. Its features stand out like those of a garment.

nsb@Job:38:15 @ »The wicked are denied their light, and their upraised arm is broken.

nsb@Job:38:16 @ »Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep?

nsb@Job:38:17 @ »Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

nsb@Job:38:18 @ »Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this.

nsb@Job:38:19 @ »Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And where does darkness reside?

nsb@Job:38:20 @ »Can you take them to their places? Do you know the paths to their dwellings?

nsb@Job:38:21 @ »Surely you know, for you were already born! You have lived so many years!

nsb@Job:38:22 @ »Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail?

nsb@Job:38:23 @ »These I reserve for times of trouble, for days of war and battle.

nsb@Job:38:24 @ »What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed, or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?

nsb@Job:38:25 @ »Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain, and a path for the thunderstorm?

nsb@Job:38:26 @ »Who waters a land where no man lives, a desert with no one in it?

nsb@Job:38:27 @ Who satisfies a desolate wasteland to make it sprout with grass?

nsb@Job:38:28 @ »Does the rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?

nsb@Job:38:29 @ »From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens

nsb@Job:38:30 @ when the waters become hard as stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen?

nsb@Job:38:31 @ »Can you bind the beautiful Pleiades? Can you loose the cords of Orion?

nsb@Job:38:32 @ »Can you bring forth the constellations of the zodiac in their seasons or lead out the Bear with its cubs?

nsb@Job:38:33 @ »Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?

nsb@Job:38:34 @ »Can you raise your voice to the clouds and cover yourself with a flood of water?

nsb@Job:38:35 @ »Do you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you: Here we are?

nsb@Job:38:36 @ »Who endowed the innermost being with wisdom or gave understanding to the mind?

nsb@Job:38:37 @ »Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens?

nsb@Job:38:38 @ This when the dust becomes hard and the clods of earth stick together?

nsb@Job:38:39 @ »Do you hunt the prey for the lioness and satisfy the hunger of the lions

nsb@Job:38:40 @ when they crouch in their dens or lie in wait in a thicket?

nsb@Job:38:41 @ »Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?