Job
38 And Jehovah proceeded to answer Job out of the windstorm+ and say:
5 Who set its measurements, in case you know,
Or who stretched out upon it the measuring line?
6 Into what have its socket pedestals+ been sunk down,
Or who laid its cornerstone,
8 And [who] barricaded the sea with doors,*+
Which began to go forth as when it burst out from the womb;
9 When I put the cloud as its* garment
And thick gloom as its swaddling band,
10 And I proceeded to break up* my regulation upon it
And to set a bar and doors,+
11 And I went on to say, ‘This far you may come, and no farther;+
And here your proud waves are limited’?+
12 Was it from your days onward that you commanded the morning?+
Did you cause the dawn to know its place,
18 Have you intelligently considered the broad spaces of the earth?+
Tell, if you have come to know it all.
19 Where, now, is the way to where light resides?+
As for darkness, where, now, is its place,
20 That you should take it to its boundary
And that you should understand the roadways to its house?
21 Have you come to know because at that time you were being born,+
And [because] in number your days are many?
22 Have you entered into the storehouses of the snow,+
Or do you see even the storehouses of the hail,+
23 Which I have kept back for the time of distress,
For the day of fight and war?+
24 Where, now, is the way by which the light* distributes itself,
[And] the east wind+ scatters about upon the earth?
25 Who has divided a channel for the flood
And a way for the thunderous storm cloud,+
26 To make it rain upon the land where there is no man,*+
[Upon] the wilderness in which there is no earthling man,*
27 To satisfy storm-stricken and desolate places
And to cause the growth of grass to sprout?+
29 Out of whose belly does the ice actually come forth,
And as for the hoarfrost+ of heaven, who indeed brings it to birth?
30 The very waters keep themselves hidden as by stone,
And the surface of the watery deep makes itself compact.+
31 Can you tie fast the bonds of the Kiʹmah constellation,*
Or can you loosen the very cords of the Keʹsil constellation?*+
32 Can you bring forth the Mazʹza·roth constellation* in its appointed time?
And as for the Ash constellation* alongside its sons, can you conduct them?
34 Can you raise your voice even to the cloud,
So that a heaving mass of water itself may cover you?+
35 Can you send forth lightnings that they may go
And say to you, ‘Here we are!’?
37 Who can exactly number the clouds in wisdom,
Or the water jars of heaven—who can tip [them] over,+
38 When the dust pours out as into a molten mass,
And the clods of earth themselves get stuck together?