Job 38

Translation: DRA

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1 Then the Lord answered Job out of a whirlwind, and said: 2 Who is this that wrappeth up sentences in unskillful words? 3 Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and answer thou me.

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4 Where wast thou when I laid up the foundations of the earth? tell me if thou hast understanding. 5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? 6 Upon what are its bases grounded? or who laid the corner stone thereof,

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7 When the morning stars praised me together, and all the sons of God made a joyful melody?

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8 Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb: 9 When I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in a mist as in swaddling bands? 10 I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors: 11 And I said: Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and here thou shalt break thy swelling waves. 

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12 Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place?

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13 And didst thou hold the extremities of the earth shaking them, and hast thou shaken the ungodly out of it?

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14 The seal shall be restored as clay, and shall stand as a garment:

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15 From the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the high arm shall be broken.

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16 Hast thou entered into the depths of the sea, and walked in the lowest parts of the deep?

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17 Have the gates of death been opened to thee, and hast thou seen the darksome doors?

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18 Hast thou considered the breadth of the earth? tell me, if thou knowest all things?

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19 Where is the way where light dwelleth, and where is the place of darkness: 20 That thou mayst bring every thing to its own bounds, and understand the paths of the house thereof.

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21 Didst thou know then that thou shouldst be born? and didst thou know the number of thy days?

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22 Hast thou entered into the storehouses of the snow, or has thou beheld the treasures of the hail: 23 Which I have prepared for the time of the enemy, against the day of battle and war?

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24 By what way is the light spread, and heat divided upon the earth?

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25 Who gave a course to violent showers, or a way for noisy thunder: 26 That it should rain on the earth without man in the wilderness, where no mortal dwelleth: 27 That it should fill the desert and desolate land, and should bring forth green grass?

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28 Who is the father of rain? or who begot the drops of dew?

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29 Out of whose womb came the ice; and the frost from heaven who hath gendered it? 30 The waters are hardened like a stone, and the surface of the deep is congealed.

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31 Shalt thou be able to join together the shining stars the Pleiades, or canst thou stop the turning about of Arcturus?

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32 Canst thou bring forth the day star in its time, and make the evening star to rise upon the children of the earth?

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33 Dost thou know the order of heaven, and canst thou set down the reason thereof on the earth?

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34 Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that an abundance of waters may cover thee?

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35 Canst thou send lightnings, and will they go, and will they return and say to thee: Here we are?

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36 Who hath put wisdom in the heart of man? or who gave the cock understanding?

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37 Who can declare the order of the heavens, or who can make the harmony of heaven to sleep?

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38 When was the dust poured on the earth, and the clods fastened together?

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39 Wilt thou take the prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite of her whelps,

40 When they couch in the dens and lie in wait in holes?

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41 Who provideth food for the raven, when her young ones cry to God, wandering about, because they have no meat?

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