Skip to content- 1Verse 1. Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:
- 2Verse 2. “Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?
- 3Verse 3. Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.
- 4Verse 4. Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.
- 5Verse 5. Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?
- 6Verse 6. On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone,
- 7Verse 7. while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
- 8Verse 8. Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
- 9Verse 9. when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,
- 10Verse 10. when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,
- 11Verse 11. and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?
- 12Verse 12. In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,
- 13Verse 13. that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?
- 14Verse 14. The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.
- 15Verse 15. Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.
- 16Verse 16. Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?
- 17Verse 17. Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
- 18Verse 18. Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.
- 19Verse 19. Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,
- 20Verse 20. so you can lead it back to its border? Do you know the paths to its home?
- 21Verse 21. Surely you know, for you were already born! And the number of your days is great!
- 22Verse 22. Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,
- 23Verse 23. which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of war and battle?
- 24Verse 24. In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?
- 25Verse 25. Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,
- 26Verse 26. to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,
- 27Verse 27. to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?
- 28Verse 28. Does the rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?
- 29Verse 29. From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,
- 30Verse 30. when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?
- 31Verse 31. Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?
- 32Verse 32. Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear and her cubs?
- 33Verse 33. Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?
- 34Verse 34. Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?
- 35Verse 35. Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
- 36Verse 36. Who has put wisdom in the heart or given understanding to the mind?
- 37Verse 37. Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens
- 38Verse 38. when the dust hardens into a mass and the clods of earth stick together?
- 39Verse 39. Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions
- 40Verse 40. when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait in the thicket?
- 41Verse 41. Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?