Job 38
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| 1 | Then the Lord answered Iob out of the whirlewind, and sayd, |
| 2 | Who is this that darkneth counsell by words without knowledge? |
| 3 | Gird vp nowe thy loines like a man; for I will demaund of thee, and answere thou me. |
| 4 | Where wast thou when I layd the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast vnderstanding. |
| 5 | Who hath layd the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line vpon it? |
| 6 | Wherepuon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who layd the corner stone thereof? |
| 7 | When the morning starres sang together, and all the sonnes of God shouted for ioy. |
| 8 | Or who shut vp the sea with doores, when it brake foorth as if it had issued out of the wombe? |
| 9 | When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thicke darknesse a swadling band for it, |
| 10 | And brake vp for it my decreed place, and set barres and doores, |
| 11 | And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and heere shall thy proud waues be stayed. |
| 12 | Hast thou commaunded the morning since thy daies? and caused the day-spring to know his place, |
| 13 | That it might take hold of the endes of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it? |
| 14 | It is turned as clay to the seale, and they stand as a garment. |
| 15 | And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arme shalbe broken. |
| 16 | Hast thou entred into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth? |
| 17 | Haue the gates of death bene opened vnto thee? or hast thou seene the doores of the shadow of death? |
| 18 | Hast thou perceiued the breadth of the earth? Declare if thou knowest it all. |
| 19 | Where is the way where light dwelleth? And as for darknesse, where is the place thereof? |
| 20 | That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the pathes to the house thereof. |
| 21 | Knowest thou it, because thou wast then borne? or because the number of thy daies is great? |
| 22 | Hast thou entred into the treasures of the snowe? or hast thou seene the treasures of the haile, |
| 23 | Which I haue reserued against the time of trouble, against the day of battaile and warre? |
| 24 | By what way is the light parted? which scattereth the East wind vpon the earth. |
| 25 | Who hath diuided a water-course for the ouerflowing of waters? or a way for the lightning of thunder, |
| 26 | To cause it to raine on the earth, where no man is: on the wildernesse wherein there is no man? |
| 27 | To satisfie the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herbe to spring forth. |
| 28 | Hath the raine a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew? |
| 29 | Out of whose wombe came the yce? and the hoary frost of heauen, who hath gendred it? |
| 30 | The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deepe is frozen. |
| 31 | Canst thou bind the sweete influences of Pleiades? or loose the bands of Orion? |
| 32 | Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season, or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sonnes? |
| 33 | Knowest thou the ordinances of heauen? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth? |
| 34 | Canst thou lift vp thy voice to the cloudes, that abundance of waters may couer thee? |
| 35 | Canst thou send lightnings, that they may goe, and say vnto thee, Here we are? |
| 36 | Who hath put wisedome in the inward parts? or who hath giuen vnderstanding to the heart? |
| 37 | Who can number the cloudes in wisedome? or who can stay the bottles of heauen, |
| 38 | When the dust groweeh into hardnesse, and the clods cleaue fast together? |
| 39 | Wilt thou hunt the pray for the lyon? or fill the appetite of the young lyons, |
| 40 | When they couch in their dennes, and abide in the couert to lie in waite? |
| 41 | Who prouideth for the rauen his foode? when his young ones cry vnto God, they wander for lacke of meate. |
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