Verse 10
Job 38:10
World English Bible, British Edition
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marked out for it my bound,
set bars and doors,
Original Language Text
hebrew
וָ/אֶשְׁבֹּ֣ר עָלָ֣י/ו חֻקִּ֑/י וָֽ֝/אָשִׂ֗ים בְּרִ֣יחַ וּ/דְלָתָֽיִם
English Translation
And I will break my statutes against me, and I will put a lock and a door.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 38 Context
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Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind,
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“Who is this who darkens counsel
by words without knowledge?
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Brace yourself like a man,
for I will question you, then you answer me!
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“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?
Declare, if you have understanding.
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Who determined its measures, if you know?
Or who stretched the line on it?
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What were its foundations fastened on?
Or who laid its cornerstone,
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when the morning stars sang together,
and all the sons of God (Elohim) shouted for joy?
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“Or who shut up the sea with doors,
when it broke out of the womb,
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when I made clouds its garment,
and wrapped it in thick darkness,
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marked out for it my bound,
set bars and doors,
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and said, ‘You may come here, but no further.
Your proud waves shall be stopped here’?
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“Have you commanded the morning in your days,
and caused the dawn to know its place,
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that it might take hold of the ends of the earth,
and shake the wicked out of it?
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It is changed as clay under the seal,
and presented as a garment.
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From the wicked, their light is withheld.
The high arm is broken.
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“Have you entered into the springs of the sea?
Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
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Have the gates of death been revealed to you?
Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
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Have you comprehended the earth in its width?
Declare, if you know it all.
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“What is the way to the dwelling of light?
As for darkness, where is its place,
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that you should take it to its bound,
that you should discern the paths to its house?
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Surely you know, for you were born then,
and the number of your days is great!
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Have you entered the storehouses of the snow,
or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
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which I have reserved against the time of trouble,
against the day of battle and war?
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By what way is the lightning distributed,
or the east wind scattered on the earth?
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Who has cut a channel for the flood water,
or the path for the thunderstorm,
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to cause it to rain on a land where there is no man,
on the wilderness, in which there is no man,
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to satisfy the waste and desolate ground,
to cause the tender grass to grow?
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Does the rain have a father?
Or who fathers the drops of dew?
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Whose womb did the ice come out of?
Who has given birth to the grey frost of the sky?
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The waters become hard like stone,
when the surface of the deep is frozen.
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“Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades,
or loosen the cords of Orion?
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Can you lead the constellations out in their season?
Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?
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Do you know the laws of the heavens?
Can you establish its dominion over the earth?
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“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,
that abundance of waters may cover you?
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Can you send out lightnings, that they may go?
Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
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Who has put wisdom in the inward parts?
Or who has given understanding to the mind?
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Who can count the clouds by wisdom?
Or who can pour out the containers of the sky,
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when the dust runs into a mass,
and the clods of earth stick together?
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“Can you hunt the prey for the lioness,
or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
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when they crouch in their dens,
and lie in wait in the thicket?
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Who provides for the raven his prey,
when his young ones cry to God (Elohim),
and wander for lack of...
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