Job 38

1 Forsooth the Lord answered from the whirlwind to Job, and said,⋮

2 Who is this man, wrapping together sentences with unwise words?⋮

3 Gird thou as a man thy loins; I shall ask thee, and answer thou to me.⋮

4 Where were thou, when I set the foundaments of the earth? show thou to me, if thou hast understanding.⋮

5 Who setted the measurements thereof, if thou knowest? either who stretched forth a line thereupon?⋮

6 Upon what thing be the founda-ments thereof made steadfast? either who sent down the cornerstone thereof,⋮

7 when the morrow stars praised me together, and all the sons of God sang joyfully?⋮

8 Who enclosed altogether the sea with doors, when it brake out coming forth as of the womb?⋮

9 When I setted a cloud the cover-ing thereof, and I wrapped it with darkness, as with ‘clothes of young childhood.⋮

10 I encompassed it with my terms, and I setted or set a bar, and doors;⋮

11 and I said, Hitherto thou shalt come, and thou shalt not go further; and here thou shalt break altogether thy swelling waves.⋮

12 Whether after thy birth thou commandedest to the beginning of the day, and showedest to the morrow-tide his place?⋮

13 Whether thou heldest shaking together the last parts of the earth, and shakedest away the wicked men therefrom?⋮

14 A sealing shall be restored as clay, and it shall stand as a cloth.⋮

15 The light of wicked men shall be taken away from them, and an high arm shall be broken.⋮

16 Whether thou hast entered into the depth of the sea, and hast walked in the last parts of the depth, that is, the ocean, or the great west sea?⋮

17 Whether the gates of death be opened to thee, and thou hast seen the dark doors?⋮

18 Whether thou hast beheld the breadth of the earth? Show thou to me, if thou knowest all things,⋮

19 in what way the light dwelleth, and which is the place of darkness;⋮

20 that thou lead out each thing to his terms, and that thou understand the ways of his house.⋮

21 Knewest thou then, that thou shouldest be born, and knew thou the number of thy days?⋮

22 Whether thou enteredest into the treasures of snow, either beheldest thou the treasures of hail?⋮

23 which things I made ready into the time of an enemy, into the day of fighting and of battle.⋮

24 By what way is the light spread abroad, and by what way heat is parted upon earth?⋮

25 Who gave course to the strongest rain, and way of the thunder sounding?⋮

26 That it should rain on the earth without man, in desert, where none of deadly men dwelleth?⋮

27 That it should ful fill a land without a way and desolate, and should bring forth green herbs?⋮

28 Who is the father of rain, either who engendered the drops of dew?⋮

29 Of whose womb went out ice, and who begat frost from heaven?⋮

30 Waters be made hard in the likeness of a stone, and the over-part of the ocean is constrained together.⋮

31 Whether thou shalt be able to join together the shining stars Pleiades, that is, the seven stars, either thou shalt be able to destroy the compass of Arcturus?⋮

32 Whether thou bringest forth Lucifer, that is, the day star, in his time, and makest the even star to rise upon the sons of the earth?⋮

33 Whether thou knowest the order of heaven, and shall set the reason thereof in the earth?⋮

34 Whether thou shalt raise thy voice into a cloud, and the fierceness of waters shall cover thee?⋮

35 Whether thou shalt send out lightnings, and they shall go forth, and those or they shall turn again, and shall say to thee, We be present?⋮

36 Who hath put wisdom to the entrails of man, that is, soul, either who gave understanding to the cock?⋮

37 Who shall tell out the reason of heavens, and who shall make the according of heaven to sleep?⋮

38 When dust was founded on the earth, and clots were joined together?⋮

39 Whether thou shalt take the prey to the lioness, and shalt fill the souls of her whelps,⋮

40 when they lie in caves, and espy in dens?⋮

41 Who maketh ready for the crow his meat, when his young cry to God, and wander about, for they have not meats?⋮