The Almighty · Issue #5 of 9

Out Of The Whirlwind

Job 38:1–18 · World English Bible

Job 38:1

Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind,

Job 38:2

Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

Job 38:3

Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me!

Job 38:4

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

Job 38:5

Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?

Job 38:6

What were its foundations fastened on? Or who laid its cornerstone,

Job 38:7

when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Job 38:8

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,

Job 38:9

when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,

Job 38:10

marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,

Job 38:11

and said, ‘You may come here, but no further. Your proud waves shall be stopped here’?

Job 38:12

Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place,

Job 38:13

that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?

Job 38:14

It is changed as clay under the seal, and presented as a garment.

Job 38:15

From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.

Job 38:16

Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

Job 38:17

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

Job 38:18

Have you comprehended the earth in its width? Declare, if you know it all.

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