Verse 1
Job 38:1
Literal Standard Version
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And YHWH answers Job out of the whirlwind and says:
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יַּֽעַן יְהוָ֣ה אֶת אִ֭יּוֹב מנ ה/סערה מִ֥ן הַ/סְּעָרָ֗ה וַ/יֹּאמַֽר
English Translation
And the Lord answered Job out of the storm and said.
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Chapter 38 Context
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And YHWH answers Job out of the whirlwind and says:
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“Who is this—darkening counsel, || By words without knowledge?
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Now gird your loins as a man, || And I ask you, and you cause Me to know.
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Where were you when I founded the earth? Declare, if you have known understanding.
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Who placed its measures—if you know? Or who has stretched out a line on it?
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On what have its sockets been sunk? Or who has cast its cornerstone—
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In the singing together of the stars of morning, || When all the sons of God (Elohim) shout for joy?
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And He shuts up the sea with doors, || In its coming forth, it goes out from the womb.
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In My making a cloud its clothing, || And thick darkness its swaddling band,
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And I measure My statute over it, || And place bar and doors,
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And say, To here you come, and no more, || And a command is placed || On the pride of your billows.
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Have you commanded morning since your days? Do you cause the dawn to know its place?
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To take hold on the skirts of the earth, || And the wicked are shaken out of it,
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It turns itself as clay of a seal || And they station themselves as clothed.
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And their light is withheld from the wicked, || And the arm lifted up is broken.
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Have you come to springs of the sea? And in searching the deep || Have you walked up and down?
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Were the gates of death revealed to you? And do you see the gates of death-shade?
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You have understanding, || Even to the broad places of earth! Declare—if you have known it all.
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Where is this—the way light dwells? And darkness, where is this—its place?
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That you take it to its boundary, || And that you understand the paths of its house.
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You have known—for then you are born, || And the number of your days are many!
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Have you come to the treasure of snow? Indeed, do you see the treasures of hail,
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That I have kept back for a time of distress, || For a day of conflict and battle?
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Where is this, the way light is apportioned? It scatters an east wind over the earth.
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Who has divided a conduit for the flood? And a way for the lightning of the voices?
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To cause it to rain on a land with no man, || A wilderness with no man in it.
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To satisfy a desolate and ruined place, || And to cause to shoot up || The produce of the tender gra...
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Does the rain have a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?
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From whose belly came forth the ice? And the hoarfrost of the heavens, || Who has begotten it?
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Waters are hidden as a stone, || And the face of the deep is captured.
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Do you bind the chains of the Pleiades? Or do you open the cords of Orion?
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Do you bring out the twelve signs in their season? And do you comfort the Great Bear over her sons?
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Have you known the statutes of the heavens? Or do you appoint || Its dominion in the earth?
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Do you lift up your voice to the cloud, || And abundance of water covers you?
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Do you send out lightnings, and they go || And say to you, Behold us?
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Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the covered part?
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Who numbers the clouds by wisdom? And the bottles of the heavens, || Who causes to lie down,
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In the hardening of dust into hardness, || And clods cleave together?
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Do you hunt prey for a lion? And fulfill the desire of young lions?
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When they bow down in dens—Abide in a thicket for a covert?
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Who prepares for a raven his provision, || When his young ones cry to God (Elohim)? They wander with...
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