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Job 38

God Speaks Now to Job

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Then the LORD  aanswered Job out of the whirlwind and said,

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"Who is this that  adarkens counsel By words without knowledge?

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"Now  agird up your loins like a man, And  bI will ask you, and you instruct Me!

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"Where were you  awhen I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell Me, if you  1have understanding,

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Who set its  ameasurements? Since you know. Or who stretched the line on it?

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"On what  awere its bases sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone,

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When the morning stars sang together And all the  asons of God shouted for joy?

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"Or who  aenclosed the sea with doors When, bursting forth, it went out from the womb;

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When I made a cloud its garment And thick darkness its swaddling band,

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And I  1 aplaced boundaries on it And set a bolt and doors,

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And I said, `Thus far you shall come, but no farther; And here shall your proud waves stop'?

God's Mighty Power

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"Have you  1ever in your life commanded the morning, And caused the dawn to know its place,

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That it might take hold of  athe ends of the earth, And  bthe wicked be shaken out of it?

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"It is changed like clay under the seal; And they stand forth like a garment.

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aFrom the wicked their light is withheld, And the  buplifted arm is broken.

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"Have you entered into  athe springs of the sea Or walked  1in the recesses of the deep?

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"Have the gates of death been revealed to you, Or have you seen the gates of  adeep darkness?

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"Have you understood the  1expanse of  athe earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.

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"Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And darkness, where is its place,

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That you may take it to  aits territory And that you may discern the paths to its  1home?

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"You know, for  ayou were born then, And the number of your days is great!

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"Have you entered the storehouses  aof the snow, Or have you seen the storehouses of the  bhail,

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Which I have reserved for the time of distress, For the day of war and battle?

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"Where is the way that  athe light is divided, Or the east wind scattered on the earth?

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"Who has cleft a channel for the flood, Or a way for the thunderbolt,

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To bring  arain on a land without  1people, On a desert without a man in it,

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To  asatisfy the waste and desolate land And to make the  1seeds of grass to sprout?

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"Has  athe rain a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?

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"From whose womb has come the  aice? And the frost of heaven, who has given it birth?

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"Water  1becomes hard like stone, And the surface of the deep is imprisoned.

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"Can you bind the chains of the  aPleiades, Or loose the cords of Orion?

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"Can you lead forth a  1constellation in its season, And guide the Bear with her  2satellites?

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"Do you know the  aordinances of the heavens, Or fix their rule over the earth?

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"Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, So that an  aabundance of water will cover you?

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"Can you  asend forth lightnings that they may go And say to you, `Here we are'?

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"Who has  aput wisdom in the innermost being Or given  bunderstanding to the  1mind?

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"Who can count the clouds by wisdom, Or  atip the water jars of the heavens,

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When the dust hardens into a mass And the clods stick together?

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"Can you hunt the  aprey for the lion, Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

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When they  acrouch in their dens And lie in wait in their lair?

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"Who prepares for  athe raven its nourishment When its young cry to God And wander about without food?



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