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Job 38

1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
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2 Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
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3 Gird up now your loins like a man; for I will demand of you, and answer you me.
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4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if you have understanding.
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5 Who has laid the measures thereof, if you know? or who has stretched the line on it?
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6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
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7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
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8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
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9 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling cloth for it,
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10 And broke up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
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11 And said, Till now shall you come, but no further: and here shall your proud waves be stayed?
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12 Have you commanded the morning since your days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
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13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
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14 It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.
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15 And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the high arm shall be broken.
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16 Have you entered into the springs of the sea? or have you walked in the search of the depth?
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17 Have the gates of death been opened to you? or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?
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18 Have you perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if you know it all.
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19 Where is the way where light dwells? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
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20 That you should take it to the bound thereof, and that you should know the paths to the house thereof?
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21 Know you it, because you were then born? or because the number of your days is great?
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22 Have you entered into the treasures of the snow? or have you seen the treasures of the hail,
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23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
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24 By what way is the light parted, which scatters the east wind on the earth?
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25 Who has divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;
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26 To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;
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27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
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28 Has the rain a father? or who has begotten the drops of dew?
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29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who has gendered it?
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30 The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
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31 Can you bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
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32 Can you bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or can you guide Arcturus with his sons?
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33 Know you the ordinances of heaven? can you set the dominion thereof in the earth?
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34 Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you?
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35 Can you send lightning, that they may go and say to you, Here we are?
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36 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? or who has given understanding to the heart?
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37 Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,
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38 When the dust grows into hardness, and the clods stuck fast together?
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39 Will you hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,
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40 When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?
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41 Who provides for the raven his food? when his young ones cry to God, they wander for lack of meat.
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