✧1Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said: ✧2“Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge? ✧3Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me. ✧4Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding. ✧5Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it? ✧6On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone, ✧7while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy? ✧8Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb, ✧9when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,
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✧10when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,
✧11and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?
✧12In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,
✧13that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?
✧14The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.
✧15Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.
✧16Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?
✧17Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
✧18Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.
✧19Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,
✧20so you can lead it back to its border? Do you know the paths to its home?
✧21Surely you know, for you were already born! And the number of your days is great!
✧22Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,
✧23which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of war and battle?
✧24In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?
✧25Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,
✧26to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,
✧27to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?
✧28Does the rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?
✧29From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,
✧30when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?
✧31Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?
✧32Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear and her cubs?
✧33Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?
✧34Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?
✧35Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
✧36Who has put wisdom in the heart or given understanding to the mind?
✧37Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens
✧38when the dust hardens into a mass and the clods of earth stick together?
✧39Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions
✧40when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait in the thicket?
✧41Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?