Job Chapter 38 Bible in Basic English

Job 38:1

And the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said,

Job 38:2

Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?

Job 38:3

Get your strength together like a man of war; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

Job 38:4

Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.

Job 38:5

By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?

Job 38:6

On what were its pillars based, or who put down its angle-stone,

Job 38:7

When the morning stars made songs together, and all the sons of the gods gave cries of joy?

Job 38:8

Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;

Job 38:9

When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it,

Job 38:10

Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;

Job 38:11

And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?

Job 38:12

Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;

Job 38:13

So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?

Job 38:14

It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe;

Job 38:15

And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken.

Job 38:16

Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?

Job 38:17

Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?

Job 38:18

Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all.

Job 38:19

Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

Job 38:20

So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house?

Job 38:21

No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great.

Job 38:22

Have you come into the secret place of snow, or have you seen the store-houses of the ice-drops,

Job 38:23

Which I have kept for the time of trouble, for the day of war and fighting?

Job 38:24

Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?

Job 38:25

By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder;

Job 38:26

Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;

Job 38:27

To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?

Job 38:28

Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist?

Job 38:29

Out of whose body came the ice? and who gave birth to the cold mist of heaven?

Job 38:30

The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.

Job 38:31

Are the bands of the Pleiades fixed by you, or are the cords of Orion made loose?

Job 38:32

Do you make Mazzaroth come out in its right time, or are the Bear and its children guided by you?

Job 38:33

Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?

Job 38:34

Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?

Job 38:35

Do you send out the thunder-flames, so that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?

Job 38:36

Who has put wisdom in the high clouds, or given knowledge to the lights of the north?

Job 38:37

By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth,

Job 38:38

When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses?