en_cepher - Job 38 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ THEN Yahuah answered Iyov out of the whirlwind, and said,

² Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

³ Gird up now your loins like a man; for I will demand of you, and answer me.

⁴ Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if you have understanding.

⁵ Who has laid the measures thereof, if you know? or who has stretched the line upon it?

⁶ Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;

⁷ When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of Elohiym shouted for joy?

⁸ Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

⁹ When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

¹⁰ And broke up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,

¹¹ And said, Hitherto shall you come, but no further: and here shall your proud waves be stayed?

¹² Have you commanded the morning since your days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;

¹³ That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?

¹⁴ It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.

¹⁵ And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the high arm shall be broken.

¹⁶ Have you entered into the springs of the sea? or have you walked in the search of the depth?

¹⁷ Have the gates of death been opened unto you? or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?

¹⁸ Have you perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if you know it all.

¹⁹ Where is the way where light dwells? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

²⁰ That you should take it to the bound thereof, and that you should know the paths to the house thereof?

²¹ Know you it, because you were then born? or because the number of your days is great?

²² Have you entered into the treasures of the snow? or have you seen the treasures of the hail,

²³ Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

²⁴ By what way is the light parted, which scatters the east wind upon the earth?

²⁵ Who has divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;

²⁶ To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;

²⁷ To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

²⁸ Has the rain a father? or who has begotten the drops of dew?

²⁹ Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who has gendered it?

³⁰ The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

³¹ Can you bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

³² Can you bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or can you guide Arcturus with his sons?

³³ Know you the ordinances of heaven? can you set the dominion thereof in the earth?

³⁴ Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you?

³⁵ Can you send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto you, Here we are?

³⁶ Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? or who has given understanding to the heart?

³⁷ Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,

³⁸ When the dust grows into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?

³⁹ Will you hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,

⁴⁰ When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?

⁴¹ Who provides for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto El, they wander for lack of meat.