Job 38

¹Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,SelectedJob 38:1CopyShareAsk

²Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?SelectedJob 38:2CopyShareAsk

³Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.SelectedJob 38:3CopyShareAsk

⁴Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.SelectedJob 38:4CopyShareAsk

⁵Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?SelectedJob 38:5CopyShareAsk

⁶Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;SelectedJob 38:6CopyShareAsk

⁷When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?SelectedJob 38:7CopyShareAsk

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

⁹When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,SelectedJob 38:9CopyShareAsk

¹⁰And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,SelectedJob 38:10CopyShareAsk

¹¹And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?SelectedJob 38:11CopyShareAsk

¹²Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;SelectedJob 38:12CopyShareAsk

¹³That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?SelectedJob 38:13CopyShareAsk

¹⁴It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.SelectedJob 38:14CopyShareAsk

¹⁵And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.SelectedJob 38:15CopyShareAsk

¹⁶Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?SelectedJob 38:16CopyShareAsk

¹⁷Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?SelectedJob 38:17CopyShareAsk

¹⁸Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.SelectedJob 38:18CopyShareAsk

¹⁹Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,SelectedJob 38:19CopyShareAsk

²⁰That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?SelectedJob 38:20CopyShareAsk

²¹Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great?SelectedJob 38:21CopyShareAsk

²²Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,SelectedJob 38:22CopyShareAsk

²³Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?SelectedJob 38:23CopyShareAsk

²⁴By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?SelectedJob 38:24CopyShareAsk

²⁵Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;SelectedJob 38:25CopyShareAsk

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

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

²⁸Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?SelectedJob 38:28CopyShareAsk

²⁹Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?SelectedJob 38:29CopyShareAsk

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

³¹Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?SelectedJob 38:31CopyShareAsk

³²Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?SelectedJob 38:32CopyShareAsk

³³Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?SelectedJob 38:33CopyShareAsk

³⁴Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?SelectedJob 38:34CopyShareAsk

³⁵Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?SelectedJob 38:35CopyShareAsk

³⁶Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?SelectedJob 38:36CopyShareAsk

³⁷Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,SelectedJob 38:37CopyShareAsk

³⁸When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?SelectedJob 38:38CopyShareAsk

³⁹Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,SelectedJob 38:39CopyShareAsk

⁴⁰When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?SelectedJob 38:40CopyShareAsk

⁴¹Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.SelectedJob 38:41CopyShareAsk