Verse 7
Job 38:7
Bible in Basic English
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When the morning stars made songs together, and all the sons of the gods gave cries of joy?
Original Language Text
hebrew
בְּ/רָן יַ֭חַד כּ֣וֹכְבֵי בֹ֑קֶר וַ֝/יָּרִ֗יעוּ כָּל בְּנֵ֥י אֱלֹהִֽים
English Translation
In the morning, together the stars sang, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.
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Chapter 38 Context
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And the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said,
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Who is this who makes the purpose of God (Elohim) dark by words without knowledge?
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Get your strength together like a man of war; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the...
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Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.
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By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over...
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On what were its pillars based, or who put down its angle-stone,
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When the morning stars made songs together, and all the sons of the gods gave cries of joy?
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Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;
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When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it,
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Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;
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And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?
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Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its pl...
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So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?
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It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe;
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And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken.
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Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?
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Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?
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Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all.
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Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;
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So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house?
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No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is gr...
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Have you come into the secret place of snow, or have you seen the store-houses of the ice-drops,
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Which I have kept for the time of trouble, for the day of war and fighting?
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Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the ea...
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By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder;
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Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;
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To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with...
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Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist?
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Out of whose body came the ice? and who gave birth to the cold mist of heaven?
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The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.
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Are the bands of the Pleiades fixed by you, or are the cords of Orion made loose?
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Do you make Mazzaroth come out in its right time, or are the Bear and its children guided by you?
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Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?
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Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?
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Do you send out the thunder-flames, so that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?
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Who has put wisdom in the high clouds, or given knowledge to the lights of the north?
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By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth,
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When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses?
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Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough,
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When they are stretched out in their holes, and are waiting in the brushwood?
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Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God (Elohim...
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