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And Jehovah answered Job out of the tempest, and said, Job 38:1
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Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Job 38:2
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Now gird up your loins like a man; for I will ask of you, and you teach Me. Job 38:3
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Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell if you have understanding! Job 38:4
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Who has set its measurements, for you know? Or who has stretched the line on it? Job 38:5
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On what are its bases sunk, or who cast its cornerstone, Job 38:6
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when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy? Job 38:7
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Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as it came from the womb? Job 38:8
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When I made the clouds its robe, and darkness its navel-band, Job 38:9
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and set My limit on it, and set bars and doors, Job 38:10
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and I said, You shall come to here, but no further; and here your proud waves shall stop. Job 38:11
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Have you commanded the morning from your days, and caused the dawn to know its place, Job 38:12
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that it might take hold of the ends of the earth; that the wicked might be shaken out of it? Job 38:13
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It is turned like clay under a seal; and they stand forth like a garment. Job 38:14
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And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the high arm shall be broken. Job 38:15
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Have you gone to the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in search of the depths? Job 38:16
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Have the gates of death been opened to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death? Job 38:17
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Have you understood the breadth of the earth? Tell, if you know it all! Job 38:18
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Where is the way where light dwells? And where is the place of darkness, Job 38:19
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that you should take it to its boundary, and that you should know the paths to its house? Job 38:20
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You know, because you were born then. And the number of your days is great. Job 38:21
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Have you entered into the storehouses of the snow? Or have you seen the storehouses of the hail, Job 38:22
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which I have kept for the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war? Job 38:23
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How is it, the way the light is distributed, and how does the east wind spread itself on the earth? Job 38:24
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Who has cut a channel for the flood, or a way for the thunderclaps; Job 38:25
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to cause rain to fall on the earth where no man is, a wilderness and no man in it; Job 38:26
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to satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the source of grass to spring forth? Job 38:27
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Has the rain a father? Or who has brought forth the drops of dew? Job 38:28
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Out of whose womb came the ice? And the frost of the heavens, who fathered it? Job 38:29
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The waters are hidden like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen. Job 38:30
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Can you bind the bands of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion? Job 38:31
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Can you bring the constellations in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with its sons? Job 38:32
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Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you set up their rulership on the earth? Job 38:33
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Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, so that floods of waters may cover you? Job 38:34
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Can you send lightnings, that they may go, and say to you, Here we are? Job 38:35
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Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind? Job 38:36
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Who can number the clouds by wisdom; or who can empty out the jars of the heavens, Job 38:37
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when the dust is melted into hardness, and the clods cling fast together? Job 38:38
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Will you hunt the prey for the lion, or fill the appetite of the young lions, Job 38:39
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when they crouch in dens, and sit in the cover of their hiding place? Job 38:40
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Who provides food for the raven, when its young ones cry to God and wander about without food? Job 38:41