Verse 38
Job 38:38
Geneva Bible
38
When the earth groweth into hardnesse, and the clottes are fast together?
Original Language Text
hebrew
בְּ/צֶ֣קֶת עָ֭פָר לַ/מּוּצָ֑ק וּ/רְגָבִ֥ים יְדֻבָּֽקוּ
English Translation
In the dust of the ground, the mire will be stuck.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 38 Context
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Then answered the Lord vnto Iob out of the whirle winde, and said,
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Who is this that darkeneth the counsell by wordes without knowledge?
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Girde vp nowe thy loynes like a man: I will demande of thee and declare thou vnto me.
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Where wast thou when I layd the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast vnderstanding,
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Who hath layde the measures thereof, if thou knowest, or who hath stretched the line ouer it:
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Whereupon are the foundations thereof set: or who layed the corner stone thereof:
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When the starres of the morning praysed me together, and all the children of God (Elohim) reioyced:
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Or who hath shut vp the Sea with doores, when it yssued and came foorth as out of the wombe:
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When I made the cloudes as a couering thereof, and darkenesse as the swadeling bands thereof:
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When I stablished my commandement vpon it, and set barres and doores,
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And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall it stay thy proude waues.
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Hast thou commanded the morning since thy dayes? hast thou caused the morning to knowe his place,
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That it might take hold of the corners of the earth, and that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
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It is turned as clay to facion, and all stand vp as a garment.
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And from the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the hie arme shalbe broken.
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Hast thou entred into the bottomes of the sea? or hast thou walked to seeke out the depth?
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Haue the gates of death bene opened vnto thee? or hast thou seene the gates of the shadowe of death?
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Hast thou perceiued the breadth of the earth? tell if thou knowest all this.
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Where is the way where light dwelleth? and where is the place of darkenesse,
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That thou shouldest receiue it in the boundes thereof, and that thou shouldest knowe the paths to th...
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Knewest thou it, because thou wast then borne, and because the nomber of thy dayes is great?
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Hast thou entred into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seene the treasures of ye haile,
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Which I haue hid against the time of trouble, against the day of warre and battell?
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By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the East winde vpon the earth?
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Who hath deuided the spowtes for the raine? or the way for the lightning of ye thunders,
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To cause it to raine on the earth where no man is, and in the wildernes where there is no man?
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To fulfil the wilde and waste place, and to cause the bud of the herbe to spring forth?
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Who is the father of the rayne? or who hath begotten the droppes of the dewe?
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Out of whose wombe came the yee? who hath ingendred the frost of the heauen?
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The waters are hid as with a stone: and the face of the depth is frosen.
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Canst thou restraine the sweete influences of the Pleiades? or loose the bandes of Orion?
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Canst thou bring foorth Mazzaroth in their time? canst thou also guide Arcturus with his sonnes?
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Knowest thou the course of heauen, or canst thou set the rule thereof in the earth?
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Canst thou lift vp thy voice to the cloudes that the aboundance of water may couer thee?
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Canst thou sende the lightenings that they may walke, and say vnto thee, Loe, heere we are?
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Who hath put wisedome in the reines? or who hath giuen the heart vnderstanding?
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Who can nomber cloudes by wisedome? or who can cause to cease the bottels of heaue,
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When the earth groweth into hardnesse, and the clottes are fast together?