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| 38:1 |
And Jehovah answereth Job out of the whirlwind, and saith: --
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| 38:2 |
Who [is] this -- darkening counsel, By words without knowledge?
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| 38:3 |
Gird, I pray thee, as a man, thy loins, And I ask thee, and cause thou Me to know.
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| 38:4 |
Where wast thou when I founded earth? Declare, if thou hast known understanding.
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| 38:5 |
Who placed its measures -- if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched out upon it a line?
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| 38:6 |
On what have its sockets been sunk? Or who hath cast its corner-stone?
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| 38:7 |
In the singing together of stars of morning, And all sons of God shout for joy,
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| 38:8 |
And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out.
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| 38:9 |
In My making a cloud its clothing, And thick darkness its swaddling band,
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| 38:10 |
And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors,
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| 38:11 |
And say, `Hitherto come thou, and add not, And a command is placed On the pride of thy billows.'
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| 38:12 |
Hast thou commanded morning since thy days? Causest thou the dawn to know its place?
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| 38:13 |
To take hold on the skirts of the earth, And the wicked are shaken out of it,
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| 38:14 |
It turneth itself as clay of a seal And they station themselves as clothed.
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| 38:15 |
And withheld from the wicked is their light, And the arm lifted up is broken.
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| 38:16 |
Hast thou come in to springs of the sea? And in searching the deep Hast thou walked up and down?
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| 38:17 |
Revealed to thee were the gates of death? And the gates of death-shade dost thou see?
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| 38:18 |
Thou hast understanding, Even unto the broad places of earth! Declare -- if thou hast known it all.
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| 38:19 |
Where [is] this -- the way light dwelleth? And darkness, where [is] this -- its place?
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| 38:20 |
That thou dost take it unto its boundary, And that thou dost understand The paths of its house.
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| 38:21 |
Thou hast known -- for then thou art born And the number of thy days [are] many!
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| 38:22 |
Hast thou come in unto the treasure of snow? Yea, the treasures of hail dost thou see?
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| 38:23 |
That I have kept back for a time of distress, For a day of conflict and battle.
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| 38:24 |
Where [is] this, the way light is apportioned? It scattereth an east wind over the earth.
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| 38:25 |
Who hath divided for the flood a conduit? And a way for the lightning of the voices?
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| 38:26 |
To cause [it] to rain on a land -- no man, A wilderness -- no man in it.
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| 38:27 |
To satisfy a desolate and waste place, And to cause to shoot up The produce of the tender grass?
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| 38:28 |
Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
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| 38:29 |
From whose belly came forth the ice? And the hoar-frost of the heavens, Who hath begotten it?
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| 38:30 |
As a stone waters are hidden, And the face of the deep is captured.
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| 38:31 |
Dost thou bind sweet influences of Kimah? Or the attractions of Kesil dost thou open?
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| 38:32 |
Dost thou bring out Mazzaroth in its season? And Aysh for her sons dost thou comfort?
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| 38:33 |
Hast thou known the statutes of heaven? Or dost thou appoint Its dominion in the earth?
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| 38:34 |
Dost thou lift up to the cloud thy voice, And abundance of water doth cover thee?
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| 38:35 |
Dost thou send out lightnings, and they go And say unto thee, `Behold us?'
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| 38:36 |
Who hath put in the inward parts wisdom? Or who hath given To the covered part understanding?
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| 38:37 |
Who doth number the clouds by wisdom? And the bottles of the heavens, Who doth cause to lie down,
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| 38:38 |
In the hardening of dust into hardness, And clods cleave together?
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| 38:39 |
Dost thou hunt for a lion prey? And the desire of young lions fulfil?
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| 38:40 |
When they bow down in dens -- Abide in a thicket for a covert?
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| 38:41 |
Who doth prepare for a raven his provision, When his young ones cry unto God? They wander without food.
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