Job

¹ Then the Lord answered Job out of the storm. He said:

² with words without knowledge?

³ I will question you, and you shall answer me.

⁴ Tell me, if you understand.

⁵ Who stretched a measuring line across it?

⁶ or who laid its cornerstone—

⁷ and all the angels shouted for joy?

⁸ when it burst forth from the womb,

⁹ and wrapped it in thick darkness,

¹⁰ and set its doors and bars in place,

¹¹ here is where your proud waves halt’?

¹² or shown the dawn its place,

¹³ and shake the wicked out of it?

¹⁴ its features stand out like those of a garment.

¹⁵ and their upraised arm is broken.

¹⁶ or walked in the recesses of the deep?

¹⁷ Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

¹⁸ Tell me, if you know all this.

¹⁹ And where does darkness reside?

²⁰ Do you know the paths to their dwellings?

²¹ You have lived so many years!

²² or seen the storehouses of the hail,

²³ for days of war and battle?

²⁴ or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?

²⁵ and a path for the thunderstorm,

²⁶ a desert with no one in it,

²⁷ and make it sprout with grass?

²⁸ Who fathers the drops of dew?

²⁹ Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens

³⁰ when the surface of the deep is frozen?

³¹ Can you loose the cords of Orion?

³² or lead out the Bear with its cubs?

³³ Can you set up God’s dominion over the earth?

³⁴ and cover yourself with a flood of water?

³⁵ Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?

³⁶ or gave understanding to the mind?

³⁷ Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens

³⁸ and the clods of earth stick together?

³⁹ and satisfy the hunger of the lions

⁴⁰ or lie in wait in a thicket?

⁴¹ when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?