The Book of Job 38

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³ Gird up now thy loins like a man for I will demand of thee and answer thou me ⚑

⁴ Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth declare if thou hast understanding ⚑

⁵ Who hath laid the measures thereof if thou knowest or who hath stretched the line upon it ⚑

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

⁸ Or who shut up the sea with doors when it brake 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 brake up for it my decreed place and set bars and doors ⚑

¹¹ And said Hitherto shalt thou come but no further and here shall thy proud waves be stayed ⚑

¹² Hast thou commanded the morning since thy 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 withholden and the high arm shall be broken ⚑

¹⁶ Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea or hast thou walked in the search of the depth ⚑

¹⁷ Have the gates of death been opened unto thee or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death ⚑

¹⁸ Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth declare if thou knowest it all ⚑

¹⁹ Where is the way where light dwelleth and as for darkness where is the place thereof ⚑

²⁰ That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof ⚑

²¹ Knowest thou it because thou wast then born or because the number of thy days is great ⚑

²² Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow or hast thou 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 scattereth the east wind upon the earth ⚑

²⁵ Who hath 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 ⚑

²⁹ Out of whose womb came the ice and the hoary frost of heaven who hath gendered it ⚑

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

³¹ Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades or loose the bands of Orion ⚑

³² Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons ⚑

³³ Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth ⚑

³⁴ Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds that abundance of waters may cover thee ⚑

³⁵ Canst thou send lightnings that they may go and say unto thee Here we are ⚑

³⁶ Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts or who hath 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 groweth into hardness and the clods cleave fast together ⚑

³⁹ Wilt thou 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 provideth for the raven his food when his young ones cry unto God they wander for lack of meat ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain