1902 Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR)

Job 38

1 God challengeth Job to answer. 4 God, by his mighty works, convinceth Job of ignorance, 31 and of imbecility.

 38:1 ¶ Then Yahweh responded to Job, out of a storm, and said:—

 38:2 Who is it that darkeneth counsel, by words, without knowledge?

 38:3 Gird, I pray thee—like a strong man—thy loins, that I may ask thee, and inform thou me:

 38:4 ¶ Where wast thou, when I founded the earth? Tell, if thou knowest understanding!

 38:5 Who set the measurements thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched out over it a line?

 38:6 Whereon were the pedestals thereof sunk? Or who laid the corner stone thereof;—

 38:7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

 38:8 Or [who] shut in, with double doors, the sea, when, bursting out of the womb, it came forth;

 38:9 When I put a cloud as the garment thereof, and a thick cloud as the swaddling-band thereof;

 38:10 And brake off for it my boundary, and fixed a bar and double doors;

 38:11 And said—Hitherto, shalt thou come, and no further,—and, here, shalt thou set a limit to the majesty of thy waves?

 38:12 ¶ Since thy days [began] hast thou commanded the morning? or caused the dawn to know its place;

 38:13 That it might lay hold of the wings of the earth, and the lawless be shaken out of it?

 38:14 It transformeth itself like the clay of a seal, so that things stand forth like one arrayed;

 38:15 That their light may be withdrawn from the lawless, and, the lofty arm, be shivered.

 38:16 Hast thou entered as far as the springs of the sea? Or, through the secret recesses of the resounding deep, hast thou wandered?

 38:17 Have the gates of death been disclosed to thee? And, the gates of the death-shade, couldst thou descry?

 38:18 Hast thou well considered, even the breadths of the earth? Tell—if thou knowest it all!

 38:19 Where then is the way, the light shall abide? And, the darkness, where then is its place?

 38:20 That thou mayest conduct it unto the bound thereof, and that thou mayest perceive the paths to its house.

 38:21 Thou knowest, for, then, hadst thou been born! And, in number, thy days are many!

 38:22 Hast thou entered into the treasuries of the snow? And, the treasuries of the hail, couldst thou see?

 38:23 Which I have reserved for a time of distress, for the day of conflict and of war?

 38:24 Where then is the way the lightning is parted? The east wind spreadeth itself abroad over the earth.

 38:25 ¶ Who hath cloven—for the torrent—a channel? Or a way for the lightning of thunders;

 38:26 To give rain over the no-man's land, the desert, where no son of earth is;

 38:27 To satisfy the wild and the wilderness, to cause to spring forth the meadow of young grass?

 38:28 Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

 38:29 Out of whose womb, came forth the ice? And, the hoar-frost of the heavens, who hath given it birth?

 38:30 Like a stone, are the waters congealed, and, the face of the roaring deep, becometh firm!

 38:31 Canst thou bind the fetters of the Pleiades? Or, the bands of Orion, canst thou unloose?

 38:32 Canst thou bring forth the signs of the Zodiac each in its season? Or, the Bear and her Young, canst thou lead?

 38:33 Knowest thou, the statutes of the heavens? Or didst thou appoint his dominion over the earth?

 38:34 Canst thou lift up, to the thick cloud, thy voice, and the overflow of waters cover thee?

 38:35 Canst thou send forth the lightnings, so that they go, and say to thee, Behold us?

 38:36 Who hath put—into cloud-forms—wisdom? Or who hath given—to the meteor—understanding?

 38:37 Who can count the thin clouds, in wisdom? And, the bottles of the heavens, who can empty out;

 38:38 When the dust is cast into a clod, and the lumps are bound together?

 38:39 Wilt thou hunt—for the Lioness—prey? Or, the craving of the Strong Lion, wilt thou satisfy;

 38:40 When they settle down in dens, abide in covert, for lying in wait?

 38:41 Who prepareth for the Raven his nourishment,—when his young ones—unto GOD—cry out, [when] they wander for lack of food?