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Job 38 📜 📕 ↷
LORD Challenges Job
1 BUT our Lord answering Job out of a whirlwind, said:📜💬📚
2 Who is this that wrappeth in sentences with unskillful words?📜💬📚
3 Gird thy loins as a man: I will ask thee, and answer thou me.📜💬📚
4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me if thou hast understanding.📜💬📚
5 Who set the measures thereof, if thou know: or who stretched out the line upon it?📜💬📚
6 Upon what are the foundations thereof grounded? Or who let down the corner stone thereof,📜💬📚
7 when the morning stars praised me together, and all the sons of God made jubilation?📜💬📚
8 Who shut in the sea with doors when it brake forth, proceeding as it were out of a matrice:📜💬📚
9 When I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in darkness as in clouts of infancy.📜💬📚
10 I compassed it with my bounds, and put bar and doors.📜💬📚
11 And I said. Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt not proceed farther, and here thou shalt break thy swelling waves.📜💬📚
12 Didst thou after thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning his place?📜💬📚
13 And didst thou hold the extremities of the earth shaking them & hast thou shaken the impious out of it?📜💬📚
14 The seal shall be restored as clay, and shall stand as a garment:📜💬📚
15 From the impious their light shall be taken away, and the high arm shall be broken.📜💬📚
16 Hast thou entered into the depths of the sea, and walked in the lowest parts of the great depth?📜💬📚
17 Have the gates of death been open to thee, & hast thou seen the darksome doors?📜💬📚
18 Hast thou considered the breadth of the earth? Tell me if thou know all things,📜💬📚
19 In what way the light dwelleth, & what is the place of darkness.📜💬📚
20 That thou canst bring every thing to his borders, & understand the paths of the house thereof.📜💬📚
21 Didst thou know then that thou shouldest be born? & didst thou know the number of thy days?📜💬📚
22 Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow, or hast thou beheld treasures of hail?📜💬📚
23 Which I have prepared for the time of the enemy, for the day of fight & battle?📜💬📚
24 What way is the light spread, is heat divided upon the earth?📜💬📚
25 Who gave course to the most vehement shower, and the way of the sounding thunder:📜💬📚
26 That it should rain upon the earth, without man in the desert, where no mortal man abideth:📜💬📚
27 That it should fill the desert and desolate ground, and should bring forth green grass?📜💬📚
28 Who is the father of rain? Or who begot the drops of dew?📜💬📚
29 Out of whose womb came forth ice? And frost from heaven who engendered?📜💬📚
30 Waters are hardened like stone, and the face of the depth is congealed.📜💬📚
31 Shalt thou be able to join together the shining stars Pleiades, or canst thou dissipate the circuit of Arcturus?📜💬📚
32 Doest thou bring forth the day star in his time, & make the evening star to rise upon the children of the earth?📜💬📚
33 Doest thou know the order of heaven, and shalt thou put down the reason thereof on the earth?📜💬📚
34 Shalt thou elevate the voice in the cloud, & the violence of the waters cover thee?📜💬📚
35 Shalt thou send lightnings, and will they go, and returning shall they say to thee: Here we are?📜💬📚
36 Who put wisdom in the heart of man or who gave the cock understanding?📜💬📚
37 Who shall declare the manner of the heavens, and the harmony of heaven who shall make to sleep?📜💬📚
38 When was the dust poured on the earth, and the clods compact together?📜💬📚
39 Shalt thou take a prey for the lioness and fill the appetite of her whelps.📜💬📚
40 When they lie in the dens, & in holes sit in wait?📜💬📚
41 Who prepareth for the raven her meat, when her young ones cry to God, wandering about, because they have not meat?📜💬📚
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