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1 - Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,

2 - “Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

3 - Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me!

4 - “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.

5 - Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?

6 - Whereupon were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone,

7 - when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

8 - “Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,

9 - when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,

10 - marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,

11 - and said, ‘Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?’

12 - “Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place;

13 - that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?

14 - It is changed as clay under the seal, and presented as a garment.

15 - From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.

16 - “Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

17 - Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

18 - Have you comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if you know it all.

19 - “What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

20 - that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?

21 - Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!

22 - Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, or have you seen the treasures of the hail,

23 - which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

24 - By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?

25 - Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm;

26 - To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; on the wilderness, in which there is no man;

27 - to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to grow?

28 - Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?

29 - Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it?

30 - The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.

31 - “Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?

32 - Can you lead the constellations out in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?

33 - Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?

34 - “Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?

35 - Can you send out lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are?’

36 - Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?

37 - Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of the sky,

38 - when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together?

39 - “Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

40 - when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?

41 - Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?