rsv Job:37-39
rsv@Job:37:1 @ "At this also my heart trembles, and leaps out of its place.
rsv@Job:37:2 @ Hearken to the thunder of his voice and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.
rsv@Job:37:3 @ Under the whole heaven he lets it go, and his lightning to the corners of the earth.
rsv@Job:37:4 @ After it his voice roars; he thunders with his majestic voice and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard.
rsv@Job:37:5 @ God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things which we cannot comprehend.
rsv@Job:37:6 @ For to the snow he says, `th'; and to the shower and the rain, "Be strong.'
rsv@Job:37:7 @ He seals up the hand of every man, that all men may know his work.
rsv@Job:37:8 @ Then the beasts go into their lairs, and remain in their dens.
rsv@Job:37:9 @ From its chamber comes the whirlwind, and cold from the scattering winds.
rsv@Job:37:10 @ By the breath of God ice is given, and the broad waters are frozen fast.
rsv@Job:37:11 @ He loads the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds scatter his lightning.
rsv@Job:37:12 @ They turn round and round by his guidance, to accomplish all that he commands them on the face of the habitable world.
rsv@Job:37:13 @ Whether for correction, or for his land, or for love, he causes it to happen.
rsv@Job:37:14 @ "Hear this, O Job; stop and consider the wondrous works of God.
rsv@Job:37:15 @ Do you know how God lays his command upon them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?
rsv@Job:37:16 @ Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge,
rsv@Job:37:17 @ you whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind?
rsv@Job:37:18 @ Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a molten mirror?
rsv@Job:37:19 @ Teach us what we shall say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of darkness.
rsv@Job:37:20 @ Shall it be told him that I would speak? Did a man ever wish that he would be swallowed up?
rsv@Job:37:21 @ "And now men cannot look on the light when it is bright in the skies, when the wind has passed and cleared them.
rsv@Job:37:22 @ Out of the north comes golden splendor; God is clothed with terrible majesty.
rsv@Job:37:23 @ The Almighty--we cannot find him; he is great in power and justice, and abundant righteousness he will not violate.
rsv@Job:37:24 @ Therefore men fear him; he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit."
rsv@Job:38:1 @ Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind:
rsv@Job:38:2 @ "Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
rsv@Job:38:3 @ Gird up your loins like a man, I will question you, and you shall declare to me.
rsv@Job:38:4 @ "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.
rsv@Job:38:5 @ Who determined its measurements--surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it?
rsv@Job:38:6 @ On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone,
rsv@Job:38:7 @ when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
rsv@Job:38:8 @ "Or who shut in the sea with doors, when it burst forth from the womb;
rsv@Job:38:9 @ when I made clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band,
rsv@Job:38:10 @ and prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors,
rsv@Job:38:11 @ and said, `d said, "Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stayed'?
rsv@Job:38:12 @ "Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place,
rsv@Job:38:13 @ that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?
rsv@Job:38:14 @ It is changed like clay under the seal, and it is dyed like a garment.
rsv@Job:38:15 @ From the wicked their light is withheld, and their uplifted arm is broken.
rsv@Job:38:16 @ "Have you entered into the springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep?
rsv@Job:38:17 @ Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
rsv@Job:38:18 @ Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth? Declare, if you know all this.
rsv@Job:38:19 @ "Where is the way to the dwelling of light, and where is the place of darkness,
rsv@Job:38:20 @ that you may take it to its territory and that you may discern the paths to its home?
rsv@Job:38:21 @ You know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!
rsv@Job:38:22 @ "Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
rsv@Job:38:23 @ which I have reserved for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war?
rsv@Job:38:24 @ What is the way to the place where the light is distributed, or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?
rsv@Job:38:25 @ "Who has cleft a channel for the torrents of rain, and a way for the thunderbolt,
rsv@Job:38:26 @ to bring rain on a land where no man is, on the desert in which there is no man;
rsv@Job:38:27 @ to satisfy the waste and desolate land, and to make the ground put forth grass?
rsv@Job:38:28 @ "Has the rain a father, or who has begotten the drops of dew?
rsv@Job:38:29 @ From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who has given birth to the hoarfrost of heaven?
rsv@Job:38:30 @ The waters become hard like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
rsv@Job:38:31 @ "Can you bind the chains of the Plei'ades, or loose the cords of Orion?
rsv@Job:38:32 @ Can you lead forth the Maz'zaroth in their season, or can you guide the Bear with its children?
rsv@Job:38:33 @ Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish their rule on the earth?
rsv@Job:38:34 @ "Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that a flood of waters may cover you?
rsv@Job:38:35 @ Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go and say to you, `d say to you, "Here we are'?
rsv@Job:38:36 @ Who has put wisdom in the clouds, or given understanding to the mists?
rsv@Job:38:37 @ Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can tilt the waterskins of the heavens,
rsv@Job:38:38 @ when the dust runs into a mass and the clods cleave fast together?
rsv@Job:38:39 @ "Can you hunt the prey for the lion, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
rsv@Job:38:40 @ when they crouch in their dens, or lie in wait in their covert?
rsv@Job:38:41 @ Who provides for the raven its prey, when its young ones cry to God, and wander about for lack of food?
rsv@Job:39:1 @ "Do you know when the mountain goats bring forth? Do you observe the calving of the hinds?
rsv@Job:39:2 @ Can you number the months that they fulfil, and do you know the time when they bring forth,
rsv@Job:39:3 @ when they crouch, bring forth their offspring, and are delivered of their young?
rsv@Job:39:4 @ Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open; they go forth, and do not return to them.
rsv@Job:39:5 @ "Who has let the wild ass go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift ass,
rsv@Job:39:6 @ to whom I have given the steppe for his home, and the salt land for his dwelling place?
rsv@Job:39:7 @ He scorns the tumult of the city; he hears not the shouts of the driver.
rsv@Job:39:8 @ He ranges the mountains as his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.
rsv@Job:39:9 @ "Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he spend the night at your crib?
rsv@Job:39:10 @ Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes, or will he harrow the valleys after you?
rsv@Job:39:11 @ Will you depend on him because his strength is great, and will you leave to him your labor?
rsv@Job:39:12 @ Do you have faith in him that he will return, and bring your grain to your threshing floor?
rsv@Job:39:13 @ "The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; but are they the pinions and plumage of love?
rsv@Job:39:14 @ For she leaves her eggs to the earth, and lets them be warmed on the ground,
rsv@Job:39:15 @ forgetting that a foot may crush them, and that the wild beast may trample them.
rsv@Job:39:16 @ She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers; though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear;
rsv@Job:39:17 @ because God has made her forget wisdom, and given her no share in understanding.
rsv@Job:39:18 @ When she rouses herself to flee, she laughs at the horse and his rider.
rsv@Job:39:19 @ "Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with strength?
rsv@Job:39:20 @ Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic snorting is terrible.
rsv@Job:39:21 @ He paws in the valley, and exults in his strength; he goes out to meet the weapons.
rsv@Job:39:22 @ He laughs at fear, and is not dismayed; he does not turn back from the sword.
rsv@Job:39:23 @ Upon him rattle the quiver, the flashing spear and the javelin.
rsv@Job:39:24 @ With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground; he cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
rsv@Job:39:25 @ When the trumpet sounds, he says `trumpet sounds, he says "Aha!' He smells the battle from afar, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
rsv@Job:39:26 @ "Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and spreads his wings toward the south?
rsv@Job:39:27 @ Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes his nest on high?
rsv@Job:39:28 @ On the rock he dwells and makes his home in the fastness of the rocky crag.
rsv@Job:39:29 @ Thence he spies out the prey; his eyes behold it afar off.
rsv@Job:39:30 @ His young ones suck up blood; and where the slain are, there is he."
rsv@Job:40:1 @ And the LORD said to Job: