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Job 38

Brenton's English Septuagint · Berean Standard Bible

38:1

And after Elius had ceased from speaking, the Lord spoke to Job through the whirlwind and clouds, [saying],

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38:2

Who is this that hides counsel from me, and confines words in [his] heart, and thinks to conceal [them] from me?

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38:3

Gird thy loins like a man; and I will ask thee, and do thou answer me.

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38:4

Where wast thou when I founded the earth? tell me now, if thou hast knowledge,

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38:5

who set the measures of it, if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it?

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38:6

On what are its rings fastened? and who is he that laid the corner-stone upon it?

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38:7

When the stars were made, all my angels praised me with a loud voice.

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38:8

And I shut up the sea with gates, when it rushed out, coming forth out of its mother's womb.

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38:9

And I made a cloud its clothing, and swathed it in mist.

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38:10

And I set bounds to it, surrounding it with bars and gates.

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38:11

And I said to it, Hitherto shalt thou come, but thou shalt not go beyond, but thy waves shall be confined within thee.

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38:12

Or did I order the morning light in thy time; and [did] the morning star [then first] see his appointed place;

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38:13

to lay hold of the extremities of the earth, to cast out the ungodly out of it?

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38:14

Or didst thou take clay of the ground, and form a living creature, and set it with the power of speech upon the earth?

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38:15

And hast thou removed light from the ungodly, and crushed the arm of the proud?

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38:16

Or hast thou gone to the source of the sea, and walked in the tracks of the deep?

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38:17

And do the gates of death open to thee for fear; and did the porters of hell quake when they saw thee?

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38:18

And hast thou been instructed in the breadth of the [whole earth] under heaven? tell me now, what is the extent of it?

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38:19

And in what kind of a land does the light dwell? and of what kind is the place of darkness?

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38:20

If thou couldest bring me to their [utmost] boundaries, and if also thou knowest their paths;

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38:21

I know then that thou wert born at that time, and the number of thy years is great.

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38:22

But hast thou gone to the treasures of snow? and hast thou seen the treasures of hail?

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38:23

And is there a store [of them], for thee against the time of [thine] enemies, for the day of wars and battle?

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38:24

And whence proceeds the frost? or [whence] is the south wind dispersed over the [whole world] under heaven?

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38:25

And who prepared a course for the violent rain, and a way for the thunders;

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38:26

to rain upon the land where [there is] no man, the wilderness, where there is not a man in it; so as to feed the untrodden and uninhabited [land],

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38:27

and cause it to send forth a crop of green herbs?

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38:28

Who is the rain's father? and who has generated the drops of dew?

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38:29

And out of whose womb comes the ice? and who has produced the frost in the sky,

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38:30

which descends like flowing water? who has terrified the face of the ungodly?

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38:31

And dost thou understand the band of Pleias, and hast thou opened the barrier of Orion?

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38:32

Or wilt thou reveal Mazuroth in his season, and the evening star with his rays? Wilt thou guide them?

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38:33

And knowest thou the changes of heaven, or the events which take place together under heaven?

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38:34

And wilt thou call a cloud with thy voice, and will it obey thee with a violent shower of much rain?

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38:35

And wilt thou send lightnings, and they shall go? and shall they say to thee, What is [thy pleasure]?

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38:36

And who has given to women skill in weaving, or knowledge of embroidery?

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38:37

And who is he that numbers the clouds in wisdom, and has bowed the heaven [down] to the earth?

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38:38

For it is spread out as dusty earth, and I have cemented it as one hewn stone to another.

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38:39

And wilt thou hunt a prey for the lions? and satisfy the desires of the serpents?

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38:40

For they fear in their lairs, and lying in wait couch in the woods.

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38:41

And who has prepared food for the raven? for its young ones wander and cry to the Lord, in search of food.

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