Job Chapter 38 Young's Literal Translation

Job 38:1

And Jehovah answereth Job out of the whirlwind, and saith: --

Job 38:2

Who `is' this -- darkening counsel, By words without knowledge?

Job 38:3

Gird, I pray thee, as a man, thy loins, And I ask thee, and cause thou Me to know.

Job 38:4

Where wast thou when I founded earth? Declare, if thou hast known understanding.

Job 38:5

Who placed its measures -- if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched out upon it a line?

Job 38:6

On what have its sockets been sunk? Or who hath cast its corner-stone?

Job 38:7

In the singing together of stars of morning, And all sons of God shout for joy,

Job 38:8

And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out.

Job 38:9

In My making a cloud its clothing, And thick darkness its swaddling band,

Job 38:10

And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors,

Job 38:11

And say, `Hitherto come thou, and add not, And a command is placed On the pride of thy billows.'

Job 38:12

Hast thou commanded morning since thy days? Causest thou the dawn to know its place?

Job 38:13

To take hold on the skirts of the earth, And the wicked are shaken out of it,

Job 38:14

It turneth itself as clay of a seal And they station themselves as clothed.

Job 38:15

And withheld from the wicked is their light, And the arm lifted up is broken.

Job 38:16

Hast thou come in to springs of the sea? And in searching the deep Hast thou walked up and down?

Job 38:17

Revealed to thee were the gates of death? And the gates of death-shade dost thou see?

Job 38:18

Thou hast understanding, Even unto the broad places of earth! Declare -- if thou hast known it all.

Job 38:19

Where `is' this -- the way light dwelleth? And darkness, where `is' this -- its place?

Job 38:20

That thou dost take it unto its boundary, And that thou dost understand The paths of its house.

Job 38:21

Thou hast known -- for then thou art born And the number of thy days `are' many!

Job 38:22

Hast thou come in unto the treasure of snow? Yea, the treasures of hail dost thou see?

Job 38:23

That I have kept back for a time of distress, For a day of conflict and battle.

Job 38:24

Where `is' this, the way light is apportioned? It scattereth an east wind over the earth.

Job 38:25

Who hath divided for the flood a conduit? And a way for the lightning of the voices?

Job 38:26

To cause `it' to rain on a land -- no man, A wilderness -- no man in it.

Job 38:27

To satisfy a desolate and waste place, And to cause to shoot up The produce of the tender grass?

Job 38:28

Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

Job 38:29

From whose belly came forth the ice? And the hoar-frost of the heavens, Who hath begotten it?

Job 38:30

As a stone waters are hidden, And the face of the deep is captured.

Job 38:31

Dost thou bind sweet influences of Kimah? Or the attractions of Kesil dost thou open?

Job 38:32

Dost thou bring out Mazzaroth in its season? And Aysh for her sons dost thou comfort?

Job 38:33

Hast thou known the statutes of heaven? Or dost thou appoint Its dominion in the earth?

Job 38:34

Dost thou lift up to the cloud thy voice, And abundance of water doth cover thee?

Job 38:35

Dost thou send out lightnings, and they go And say unto thee, `Behold us?'

Job 38:36

Who hath put in the inward parts wisdom? Or who hath given To the covered part understanding?

Job 38:37

Who doth number the clouds by wisdom? And the bottles of the heavens, Who doth cause to lie down,

Job 38:38

In the hardening of dust into hardness, And clods cleave together?

Job 38:39

Dost thou hunt for a lion prey? And the desire of young lions fulfil?

Job 38:40

When they bow down in dens -- Abide in a thicket for a covert?

Job 38:41

Who doth prepare for a raven his provision, When his young ones cry unto God? They wander without food.