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| Job 38:1 | And the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said, | And Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind and said, | | Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind, |
| Job 38:2 | Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge? | Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? | | "Who is this who darkens counsel By words without knowledge? |
| Job 38:3 | Get your strength together like a man of war; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers. | Gird up now thy loins like a man; and I will demand of thee, and inform thou me. | | Brace yourself like a man, For I will question you, then you answer me! |
| Job 38:4 | Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge. | Where wast thou when I founded the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding. | | "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding. |
| Job 38:5 | By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it? | Who set the measures thereof if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it? | | Who determined the measures of it, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it? |
| Job 38:6 | On what were its pillars based, or who put down its angle-stone, | Whereupon were the foundations thereof sunken? or who laid its corner-stone, | | Whereupon were the foundations of it fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone, |
| Job 38:7 | When the morning stars made songs together, and all the sons of the gods gave cries of joy? | When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? | | When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy? |
| Job 38:8 | Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place; | And who shut up the sea with doors, when it burst forth, issuing out of the womb? | | "Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it broke forth from the womb, |
| Job 38:9 | When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it, | When I made the cloud its garment, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it; | | When I made clouds the garment of it, Thick darkness a swaddling-band for it, |
| Job 38:10 | Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors; | When I cut out for it my boundary, and set bars and doors, | | Marked out for it my bound, Set bars and doors, |
| Job 38:11 | And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped? | And said, Hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed? | | And said, 'Here you may come, but no further; Here shall your proud waves be stayed?' |
| Job 38:12 | Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place; | Hast thou since thy days commanded the morning? hast thou caused the dawn to know its place, | | "Have you commanded the morning in your days, And caused the dawn to know its place; |
| Job 38:13 | So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it? | That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and the wicked might be shaken out of it? | | That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, And shake the wicked out of it? |
| Job 38:14 | It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe; | It is changed like the signet-clay; and [all things] stand forth as in a garment: | | It is changed as clay under the seal, And stands forth as a garment. |
| Job 38:15 | And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken. | And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the uplifted arm is broken. | | From the wicked, their light is withheld, The high arm is broken. |
| Job 38:16 | Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep? | Hast thou entered as far as the springs of the sea? and hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep? | | "Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep? |
| Job 38:17 | Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you? | Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? and hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death? | | Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death? |
| Job 38:18 | Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all. | Hath thine understanding compassed the breadths of the earth? Declare if thou knowest it all. | | Have you comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if you know it all. |
| Job 38:19 | Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark; | Where is the way to where light dwelleth? and the darkness, where is its place, | | "What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is the place of it, |
| Job 38:20 | So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house? | That thou shouldest take it to its bound, and that thou shouldest know the paths to its house? | | That you should take it to the bound of it, That you should discern the paths to the house of it? |
| Job 38:21 | No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great. | Thou knowest, for thou wast then born, and the number of thy days is great! | | Surely you know, for you were born then, And the number of your days is great! |
| Job 38:22 | Have you come into the secret place of snow, or have you seen the store-houses of the ice-drops, | Hast thou entered into the storehouses of the snow, and hast thou seen the treasuries of the hail, | | Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, Or have you seen the treasures of the hail, |
| Job 38:23 | Which I have kept for the time of trouble, for the day of war and fighting? | Which I have reserved for the time of distress, for the day of battle and war? | | Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, Against the day of battle and war? |
| Job 38:24 | Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth? | By what way is the light parted, [and] the east wind scattered upon the earth? | | By what way is the lightning distributed, Or the east wind scattered on the earth? |
| Job 38:25 | By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder; | Who hath divided a channel for the rain-flood, and a way for the thunder's flash; | | Who has cut a channel for the flood water, Or the path for the thunderstorm; |
| Job 38:26 | Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people; | To cause it to rain on the earth, where no one is; on the wilderness wherein there is not a man; | | To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; On the wilderness, in which there is no man; |
| Job 38:27 | To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass? | To satisfy the desolate and waste [ground], and to cause the sprout of the grass to spring forth? | | To satisfy the waste and desolate ground, To cause the tender grass to spring forth? |
| Job 38:28 | Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist? | Hath the rain a father? or who begetteth the drops of dew? | | Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew? |
| Job 38:29 | Out of whose body came the ice? and who gave birth to the cold mist of heaven? | Out of whose womb cometh the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who bringeth it forth? | | Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it? |
| Job 38:30 | The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered. | When the waters lie hidden as in stone, and the face of the deep holdeth fast together. | | The waters become hard like stone, When the surface of the deep is frozen. |
| Job 38:31 | Are the bands of the Pleiades fixed by you, or are the cords of Orion made loose? | Canst thou fasten the bands of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion? | | "Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, Or loosen the cords of Orion? |
| Job 38:32 | Do you make Mazzaroth come out in its right time, or are the Bear and its children guided by you? | Dost thou bring forth the constellations each in its season? or dost thou guide the Bear with her sons? | | Can you lead forth the constellations in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs? |
| Job 38:33 | Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth? | Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens? dost thou determine their rule over the earth? | | Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish the dominion of it over the earth? |
| Job 38:34 | Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters? | Dost thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that floods of waters may cover thee? | | "Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you? |
| Job 38:35 | Do you send out the thunder-flames, so that they may go, and say to you, Here we are? | Dost thou send forth lightnings that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are? | | Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, 'Here we are?' |
| Job 38:36 | Who has put wisdom in the high clouds, or given knowledge to the lights of the north? | Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the mind? | | Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind? |
| Job 38:37 | By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth, | Who numbereth the clouds with wisdom? or who poureth out the bottles of the heavens, | | Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of the sky, |
| Job 38:38 | When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses? | When the dust runneth as into a molten mass, and the clods cleave fast together? | | When the dust runs into a mass, And the clods of earth stick together? |
| Job 38:39 | Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough, | Dost thou hunt the prey for the lioness, and dost thou satisfy the appetite of the young lions, | | "Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions, |
| Job 38:40 | When they are stretched out in their holes, and are waiting in the brushwood? | When they crouch in [their] dens, [and] abide in the thicket to lie in wait? | | When they crouch in their dens, And lie in wait in the thicket? |
| Job 38:41 | Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food? | Who provideth for the raven his food, when his young ones cry unto ùGod, [and] they wander for lack of meat? | | Who provides for the raven his prey, When his young ones cry to God, And wander for lack of food? |
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