en_wbms - Job 38 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ Forsooth the Lord answered from the whirlwind to Job, and said,

² Who is this man, wrapping together sentences with unwise words?

³ Gird thou as a man thy loins; I shall ask thee, and answer thou [to] me.

⁴ Where were thou, when I set the foundaments of the earth? show thou to me, if thou hast understanding.

⁵ Who setted [the] measurements thereof, if thou knowest? either who stretched forth a line thereupon?

⁶ Upon what thing be the founda-ments thereof made steadfast? either who sent down the cornerstone thereof,

⁷ when the morrow stars praised me together, and all the sons of God sang joyfully?

⁸ Who enclosed altogether the sea with doors, when it brake out coming forth as of the womb?

⁹ When I setted a cloud the cover-ing thereof, and I wrapped it with darkness, as with ‘clothes of young childhood.

¹⁰ I encompassed it with my terms, and I setted [or set] a bar, and doors;

¹¹ and I said, Hitherto thou shalt come, and thou shalt not go further; and here thou shalt break altogether thy swelling waves.

¹² Whether after thy birth thou commandedest to the beginning of the day, and showedest to the morrow-tide his place?

¹³ Whether thou heldest shaking together the last parts of [the] earth, and shakedest away [the] wicked men therefrom?

¹⁴ A sealing shall be restored as clay, and it shall stand as a cloth.

¹⁵ The light of wicked men shall be taken away from them, and an high arm shall be broken.

¹⁶ Whether thou hast entered into the depth of the sea, and hast walked in the last parts of the depth, that is, the ocean, or the great west sea?

¹⁷ Whether the gates of death be opened to thee, and thou hast seen the dark doors?

¹⁸ Whether thou hast beheld the breadth of the earth? Show thou to me, if thou knowest all things,

¹⁹ in what way the light dwelleth, and which is the place of darkness;

²⁰ that thou lead out each thing to his terms, and that thou understand the ways of his house.

²¹ Knewest thou then, that thou shouldest be born, and knew thou the number of thy days?

²² Whether thou enteredest into the treasures of snow, either beheldest thou the treasures of hail?

²³ which things I made ready into the time of an enemy, into the day of fighting and of battle.

²⁴ By what way is the light spread abroad, and by what way heat is parted upon earth?

²⁵ Who gave course to the strongest rain, and way of the thunder sounding?

²⁶ That it should rain on the earth without man, in desert, where none of deadly men dwelleth?

²⁷ That it should [ful] fill a land without a way and desolate, and should bring forth green herbs?

²⁸ Who is [the] father of rain, either who engendered the drops of dew?

²⁹ Of whose womb went out ice, and who begat frost from heaven?

³⁰ Waters be made hard in the likeness of [a] stone, and the over-part of [the] ocean is constrained together.

³¹ Whether thou shalt be able to join together [the] shining stars Pleiades, that is, the seven stars, either thou shalt be able to destroy the compass of Arcturus?

³² Whether thou bringest forth Lucifer, that is, the day star, in his time, and makest the even star to rise upon the sons of [the] earth?

³³ Whether thou knowest the order of heaven, and shall set the reason thereof in [the] earth?

³⁴ Whether thou shalt raise thy voice into a cloud, and the fierceness of waters shall cover thee?

³⁵ Whether thou shalt send out lightnings, and they shall go forth, and those [or they] shall turn again, and shall say to thee, We be present?

³⁶ Who hath put wisdom to the entrails of man, that is, soul, either who gave understanding to the cock?

³⁷ Who shall tell out the reason of heavens, and who shall make [the] according of heaven to sleep?

³⁸ When dust was founded on the earth, and clots were joined together?

³⁹ Whether thou shalt take [the] prey to the lioness, and shalt fill the souls of her whelps,

⁴⁰ when they lie in caves, and espy in dens?

⁴¹ Who maketh ready for the crow his meat, when his young cry to God, and wander about, for they have not meats?