129 lines
3.7 KiB
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129 lines
3.7 KiB
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## 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'?
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## 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?
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## 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?
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