Verse 36
Job 38:36
Free Bible Version
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Who is clever enough to count the clouds? Who can turn heaven's water jars on their sides
Original Language Text
hebrew
מִי שָׁ֭ת בַּ/טֻּח֣וֹת חָכְמָ֑ה א֤וֹ מִֽי נָתַ֖ן לַ/שֶּׂ֣כְוִי בִינָֽה
English Translation
Who has placed wisdom in the hidden places or who has given understanding to the heart?
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 questions my wisdom by talking so ignorantly?
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Prepare yourself, be strong, for I am going to question you, and you must answer me.
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Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have such knowledge!
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Who decided its dimensions? Don't you know? Who stretched out a measuring line?
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What do its foundations rest upon? Who laid its cornerstone,
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Who laid down the boundaries of the sea when it was born?
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Who clothed it with clouds, and wrapped it in a blanket of deep darkness?
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I set its limits, marking its borders.
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I said, ‘You may come here, but no farther. Here is where your proud waves stop.’
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During your lifetime, have you ever ordered the morning to begin?
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Have you ever told the dawn where to appear that it might take hold of the corners of the earth and...
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The earth is changed like clay under a seal; its features stand out like a crumpled garment.
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The ‘light’ of the wicked is taken away from them; their acts of violence are stopped.
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Have you entered the sources of the sea? Have you explored their hidden depths?
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Have you been shown where the gates of death are? Have you seen the gates of utter darkness?
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Do you know how far the earth extends? Tell me if you know all this!
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In which direction does light live? Where does darkness dwell?
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Can you take them home? Do you know the way to where they live?
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Of course you know, because you were already born then! You've lived so long!
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Have you been to where the snow is kept? Have you seen where the hail is held?
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I have stored them up for the time of trouble, for the day of war and battle.
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Do you know the way to where light comes from, or to where the east wind blows over the earth?
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Who cuts a channel for the rain to flow? Who creates a path for the thunderbolt?
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Who brings rain to an uninhabited land, to a desert where nobody lives,
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to water a parched wasteland to make the green grass grow?
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Does the rain have a father? Who was the father of the dewdrops?
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Who was the mother of ice? Does the frost of the air have a mother?
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Water turns into rock-hard ice; its surface freezes solid.
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Can you tie together the stars of the Pleiades? Can you loosen the belt of the Orion constellation?
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Can you guide the stars of Mazzaroth at the right time? Can you direct the Great Bear constellation...
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Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you apply them to the earth?
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Can you shout to the clouds and command them to pour rain down on you?
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Can you send out bolts of lightning and direct them, so that they can answer you saying, ‘Here we ar...
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Who has placed wisdom inside people? Who has given understanding to the mind?
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Who is clever enough to count the clouds? Who can turn heaven's water jars on their sides
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when the dust has baked into a solid mass?
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Can you hunt prey for the lion? Can you feed the lion cubs
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as they crouch down in their dens and lie in wait in the bushes?
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Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God (Elohim), weak from starvation?”
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