83 lines
3.2 KiB
Markdown
83 lines
3.2 KiB
Markdown
# Chapter 38
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1 Then the Lord answered Job from the whirlwind. He said:
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2 Who is this who obscures my counsel
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with ignorant words?
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3 Get ready to answer me like a man;
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when I question you, you will inform me.
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4 Where were you when I established the earth?
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Tell me, if you have understanding.
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5 Who fixed its dimensions? Certainly you know!
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Who stretched a measuring line across it?
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6 What supports its foundations?
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Or who laid its cornerstone
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7 while the morning stars sang together
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and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
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8 Who enclosed the sea behind doors
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when it burst from the womb,
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9 when I made the clouds its garment
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and total darkness its blanket,
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10 when I determined its boundaries
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and put its bars and doors in place,
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11 when I declared, “You may come this far, but no farther;
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your proud waves stop here”?
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12 Have you ever in your life commanded the morning
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or assigned the dawn its place,
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13 so it may seize the edges of the earth
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and shake the wicked out of it?
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14 The earth is changed as clay is by a seal;
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its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.
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15 Light is withheld from the wicked,
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and the arm raised in violence is broken.
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16 Have you traveled to the sources of the sea
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or walked in the depths of the oceans?
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17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you?
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Have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
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18 Have you comprehended the extent of the earth?
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Tell me, if you know all this.
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19 Where is the road to the home of light?
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Do you know where darkness lives,
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20 so you can lead it back to its border?
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Are you familiar with the paths to its home?
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21 Don’t you know? You were already born;
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you have lived so long!
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22 Have you entered the place where the snow is stored?
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Or have you seen the storehouses of hail,
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23 which I hold in reserve for times of trouble,
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for the day of warfare and battle?
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24 What road leads to the place where light is dispersed?
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Where is the source of the east wind that spreads across the earth?
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25 Who cuts a channel for the flooding rain
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or clears the way for lightning,
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26 to bring rain on an uninhabited land,
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on a desert with no human life,
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27 to satisfy the parched wasteland
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and cause the grass to sprout?
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28 Does the rain have a father?
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Who fathered the drops of dew?
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29 Whose womb did the ice come from?
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Who gave birth to the frost of heaven
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30 when water becomes as hard as stone,
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and the surface of the watery depths is frozen?
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31 Can you fasten the chains of the Pleiades
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or loosen the belt of Orion?
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32 Can you bring out the constellations in their season
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and lead the Bear and her cubs?
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33 Do you know the laws of heaven?
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Can you impose its authority on earth?
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34 Can you command the clouds
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so that a flood of water covers you?
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35 Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go?
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Do they report to you, “Here we are”?
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36 Who put wisdom in the heart
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or gave the mind understanding?
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37 Who has the wisdom to number the clouds?
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Or who can tilt the water jars of heaven
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38 when the dust hardens like cast metal
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and the clods of dirt stick together?
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39 Can you hunt prey for a lioness
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or satisfy the appetite of young lions
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40 when they crouch in their dens
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and lie in wait within their lairs?
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41 Who provides the raven’s food
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when its young cry out to God
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and wander about for lack of food? |