Job 38

1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, ‡ Job 40:61Ki 19:112Ki 2:11Exo 19:16-19Job 37:1-22Ki 2:1Deu 4:11-12Ezk 1:4 +4

2 “Who is this who darkens counsel ‡ Job 42:3Job 35:161Ti 1:7Job 34:35Job 27:11Job 12:3Job 23:4-5Job 24:25 +1

by words without knowledge?

3 Brace yourself like a man, ‡ Job 40:7Exo 12:11Jer 1:171Ki 18:461Pe 1:13Job 13:15Job 13:22Job 23:3-7 +1

for I will question you, then you answer me!

4 “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? ‡ Psa 104:5Heb 1:10Pro 30:4Heb 1:2Gen 1:1Psa 102:25Pro 8:22Pro 8:29-30

Declare, if you have understanding.

5 Who determined its measures, if you know? ‡ Isa 40:12Job 11:9Zec 2:1-22Co 10:16Isa 34:11Isa 40:22Job 28:25Pro 8:27 +3

Or who stretched the line on it?

6 What were its foundations fastened on? ‡ Job 26:7Psa 104:5Psa 93:12Pe 3:5Isa 28:16Psa 118:22Zec 12:1Eph 2:20-21 +4

Or who laid its cornerstone,

7 when the morning stars sang together, ‡ Rev 5:11Job 1:6Ezr 3:11-12Rev 22:16Job 2:1Psa 104:4Rev 2:28Zec 4:7

and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

8 “Or who shut up the sea with doors, ‡ Gen 1:9Jer 5:22Pro 8:29Psa 104:8-9Psa 33:7Job 38:10

when it broke out of the womb,

9 when I made clouds its garment, ‡ Gen 1:2

and wrapped it in thick darkness,

10 marked out for it my bound, ‡ Jer 5:22Psa 104:9Job 26:10Psa 33:7Gen 1:9-10Gen 9:15

set bars and doors,

11 and said, ‘You may come here, but no further. ‡ Psa 89:9Pro 8:29Mrk 4:39-41Psa 65:6-7Luk 8:32-33Isa 27:8Job 2:6Psa 93:3-4 +4

Your proud waves shall be stopped here’?

12 “Have you commanded the morning in your days, ‡ Psa 74:16Gen 1:5Psa 148:3-5Job 8:92Pe 1:19Luk 1:78Psa 136:7-8Job 15:7 +2

and caused the dawn to know its place,

13 that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, ‡ Job 37:3Psa 104:35Exo 14:27Job 24:13-17Psa 104:21-22Psa 139:9-12Psa 19:4-6

and shake the wicked out of it?

14 It is changed as clay under the seal, ‡ Psa 104:6Psa 104:2

and presented as a garment.

15 From the wicked, their light is withheld. ‡ Psa 10:15Job 18:5Psa 37:17Pro 4:19Exo 10:21-23Ezk 30:22Job 18:18Job 5:14 +4

The high arm is broken.

16 “Have you entered into the springs of the sea? ‡ Pro 8:24Job 26:5-6Psa 77:19Jer 51:36

Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you? ‡ Psa 9:13Psa 107:18Job 3:5Job 12:22Psa 107:10Psa 107:14Psa 23:4Amo 5:8 +2

Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

18 Have you comprehended the earth in its width? ‡ Jer 31:37Psa 89:11-12Rev 20:9Isa 40:28Job 28:24Psa 74:17

Declare, if you know it all.

19 “What is the way to the dwelling of light? ‡ Ezk 32:8Amo 4:13Deu 4:19Gen 1:14-18Gen 1:3-4Isa 45:7Job 38:12-13Mat 27:45 +6

As for darkness, where is its place,

20 that you should take it to its bound, ‡ Gen 10:19Gen 23:17Job 26:10

that you should discern the paths to its house?

21 Surely you know, for you were born then, ‡ Job 15:7Job 38:12Job 38:4

and the number of your days is great!

22 Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, ‡ Job 37:6Psa 135:7Job 6:16Psa 33:7

or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,

23 which I have reserved against the time of trouble, ‡ Jos 10:11Isa 30:30Exo 9:18Ezk 13:11-13Job 36:13Rev 16:21Exo 9:24Job 36:31 +1

against the day of battle and war?

24 By what way is the lightning distributed, ‡ Job 38:12-13Jon 4:8Mat 24:27

or the east wind scattered on the earth?

25 Who has cut a channel for the flood water, ‡ Job 28:26Psa 29:3-10Job 36:27-28Job 37:3-6

or the path for the thunderstorm,

26 to cause it to rain on a land where there is no man, ‡ Jer 14:22Heb 6:7-8Psa 107:35Isa 35:1-2Isa 43:19-20Job 36:27Psa 104:10-14Psa 147:8-9 +1

on the wilderness, in which there is no man,

27 to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, ‡ Psa 107:35Psa 104:14

to cause the tender grass to grow?

28 Does the rain have a father? ‡ Jer 14:22Psa 147:8Jer 10:13Pro 3:201Ki 17:11Sa 12:17-182Sa 1:21Amo 4:7 +12

Or who fathers the drops of dew?

29 Whose womb did the ice come out of? ‡ Psa 147:16-17Job 37:10Job 38:8Job 6:16

Who has given birth to the gray frost of the sky?

30 The waters become hard like stone, ‡ Job 37:10

when the surface of the deep is frozen.

31 “Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, ‡ Amo 5:8Job 9:9

or loosen the cords of Orion?

32 Can you lead the constellations out in their season? ‡ Job 38:312Ki 23:5Job 9:9

Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?

33 Do you know the laws of the heavens? ‡ Jer 31:35-36Gen 8:22Gen 1:16Jer 33:25Job 38:12-13Psa 148:6Psa 119:90-91

Can you establish its dominion over the earth?

34 “Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, ‡ Job 22:111Sa 12:18Amo 5:8Jas 5:18Job 36:27-28Zec 10:1

that abundance of waters may cover you?

35 Can you send out lightnings, that they may go? ‡ Job 36:32Job 37:31Sa 22:122Ki 1:102Ki 1:14Exo 9:23-25Exo 9:29Isa 6:8 +5

Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?

36 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? ‡ Job 32:8Psa 51:6Ecc 2:26Pro 2:6Jas 1:5Exo 31:3Job 9:4Jas 1:17 +2

Or who has given understanding to the mind?

37 Who can count the clouds by wisdom? ‡ Psa 147:4Gen 15:5Gen 8:1Gen 9:15

Or who can pour out the containers of the sky,

38 when the dust runs into a mass,

and the clods of earth stick together?

39 “Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, ‡ Psa 104:21Job 4:10-11Psa 145:15-16Psa 34:10

or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

40 when they crouch in their dens, ‡ Job 37:8Gen 49:9Num 23:24Num 24:9

and lie in wait in the thicket?

41 Who provides for the raven his prey, ‡ Luk 12:24Mat 6:26Psa 147:9Psa 104:27-28

when his young ones cry to God,

and wander for lack of food?