Read Job 38

World English Bible · 41 verses

1. ¹ Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
2. ² “Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
3. ³ Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me!This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
4. ⁴ “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
5. ⁵ Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
6. ⁶ What were its foundations fastened on? Or who laid its cornerstone,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
7. ⁷ when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
8. ⁸ “Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
9. ⁹ when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
10. ¹⁰ marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
11. ¹¹ and said, ‘You may come here, but no further. Your proud waves shall be stopped here’?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
12. ¹² “Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
13. ¹³ that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
14. ¹⁴ It is changed as clay under the seal, and presented as a garment.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
15. ¹⁵ From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
16. ¹⁶ “Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
17. ¹⁷ Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
18. ¹⁸ Have you comprehended the earth in its width? Declare, if you know it all.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
19. ¹⁹ “What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
20. ²⁰ that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
21. ²¹ Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
22. ²² Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
23. ²³ which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
24. ²⁴ By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
25. ²⁵ Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
26. ²⁶ to cause it to rain on a land where there is no man, on the wilderness, in which there is no man,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
27. ²⁷ to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to grow?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
28. ²⁸ Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
29. ²⁹ Whose womb did the ice come out of? Who has given birth to the gray frost of the sky?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
30. ³⁰ The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
31. ³¹ “Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
32. ³² Can you lead the constellations out in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
33. ³³ Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
34. ³⁴ “Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
35. ³⁵ Can you send out lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
36. ³⁶ Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
37. ³⁷ Who can count the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the containers of the sky,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
38. ³⁸ when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
39. ³⁹ “Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
40. ⁴⁰ when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
41. ⁴¹ Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

Scripture: World English Bible, public domain, eBible.org