Jó 38

1 Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,

2 "Who is this who darkens counsel

3 Brace yourself like a man,

4 "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?

5 Who determined its measures, if you know?

6 What were its foundations fastened on?

7 when the morning stars sang together,

8 "Or who shut up the sea with doors,

9 when I made clouds its garment,

10 marked out for it my bound,

11 and said, ‘You may come here, but no further.

12 "Have you commanded the morning in your days,

13 that it might take hold of the ends of the earth,

14 It is changed as clay under the seal,

15 From the wicked, their light is withheld.

16 "Have you entered into the springs of the sea?

17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you?

18 Have you comprehended the earth in its width?

19 "What is the way to the dwelling of light?

20 that you should take it to its bound,

21 Surely you know, for you were born then,

22 Have you entered the storehouses of the snow,

23 which I have reserved against the time of trouble,

24 By what way is the lightning distributed,

25 Who has cut a channel for the flood water,

26 to cause it to rain on a land where there is no man,

27 to satisfy the waste and desolate ground,

28 Does the rain have a father?

29 Whose womb did the ice come out of?

30 The waters become hard like stone,

31 "Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades,

32 Can you lead the constellations out in their season?

33 Do you know the laws of the heavens?

34 "Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,

35 Can you send out lightnings, that they may go?

36 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts?

37 Who can count the clouds by wisdom?

38 when the dust runs into a mass,

39 "Can you hunt the prey for the lioness,

40 when they crouch in their dens,

41 Who provides for the raven his prey,