bible_study/Bible/Job/Job 38.md

## Yahweh Answers Job 

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Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind and said, 

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

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Now gird up your loins like a man, And I will ask you, and you make Me know! 

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Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell _Me_, if you know understanding, 

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

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On what were its bases sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone, 

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

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"Or _who_ enclosed 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 dense gloom its swaddling band, 

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And I placed 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'? 

## Yahweh Answers Job, 'Have You?' 

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

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That it might seize the ends of the earth, And the wicked be shaken out of it? 

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It is changed like clay _under_ the seal; And they stand forth like clothing. 

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From the wicked their light is withheld, And the arm raised high is broken. 

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"Have you entered into the springs of the sea Or walked in 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 the shadow of death? 

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Have you carefully considered the expanse of the earth? Tell _Me_, if you know all this. 

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"Where is the way to _where_ the light dwells? And darkness, where is its place, 

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

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

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Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, Or have you seen the storehouses of the hail, 

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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 the light is divided, _Or_ the east wind scattered on the earth? 

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

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To bring rain on a land without people, _On_ a desert without a man in it, 

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To satisfy the waste and desolate land And to make the growth of grass to sprout? 

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

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

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Water becomes hard like stone, And the surface of the deep is interlocked. 

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

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

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

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

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

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Who has given wisdom in the innermost being Or given understanding to the mind? 

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

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

## Yahweh Answers Job, 'Where Were You?' 

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"Can you hunt the prey for the lion, Or fulfill the appetite of the young lions, 

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When they crouch in _their_ dens _And_ lie in wait in _their_ lair? 

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Who prepares for the raven its provision When its young cry for help to God And wander about without food?