< Job 38 >

1 And after Elius had ceased from speaking, the Lord spoke to Job through the whirlwind and clouds, [saying],
and to answer LORD [obj] Job (from *Q(K)*) ([the] tempest *Q(k)*) and to say
2 Who is this that hides counsel from me, and confines words in [his] heart, and thinks to conceal [them] from me?
who? this to darken counsel in/on/with speech without knowledge
3 Gird thy loins like a man; and I will ask thee, and do thou answer me.
to gird please like/as great man loin your and to ask you and to know me
4 Where wast thou when I founded the earth? tell me now, if thou hast knowledge,
where? to be in/on/with to found I land: country/planet to tell if to know understanding
5 who set the measures of it, if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it?
who? to set: make measurement her for to know or who? to stretch upon her line
6 On what are its rings fastened? and who is he that laid the corner-stone upon it?
upon what? socket her to sink or who? to shoot stone corner her
7 When the stars were made, all my angels praised me with a loud voice.
in/on/with to sing unitedness star morning and to shout all son: child God
8 And I shut up the sea with gates, when it rushed out, coming forth out its mother's womb.
and to fence in/on/with door sea in/on/with to burst/come out he from womb to come out: produce
9 And I made a cloud its clothing, and swathed it in mist.
in/on/with to set: make I cloud clothing his and cloud swaddling his
10 And I set bounds to it, surrounding it with bars and gates.
and to break upon him statute: allotment my and to set: make bar and door
11 And I said to it, Hitherto shalt thou come, but thou shalt not go beyond, but thy waves shall be confined within thee.
and to say till here to come (in): come and not to add and here to set: appoint in/on/with pride heap: wave your
12 Or did I order the morning light in thy time; and [did] the morning star [then first] see his appointed place;
from day your to command morning (to know [the] dawn *Q(K)*) place his
13 to lay hold of the extremities of the earth, to cast out the ungodly out of it?
to/for to grasp in/on/with wing [the] land: country/planet and to shake wicked from her
14 Or didst thou take clay of the ground, and form a living creature, and set it with the power of speech upon the earth?
to overturn like/as homer signet and to stand like clothing
15 And hast thou removed light from the ungodly, and crushed the arm of the proud?
and to withhold from wicked light their and arm to exalt to break
16 Or hast thou gone to the source of the sea, and walked in the tracks of the deep?
to come (in): come till spring sea and in/on/with search abyss to go: walk
17 And do the gates of death open to thee for fear; and did the porters of hell quake when they saw thee? (questioned)
to reveal: reveal to/for you gate death and gate shadow to see: see
18 And hast thou been instructed in the breadth of the [whole earth] under heaven? tell me now, what is the extent of it?
to understand till breadth land: country/planet to tell if to know all her
19 And in what kind of a land does the light dwell? and of what kind is the place of darkness?
where? this [the] way: direction to dwell light and darkness where? this place his
20 If thou couldest bring me to their [utmost] boundaries, and if also thou knowest their paths;
for to take: take him to(wards) border: area his and for to understand path house: home his
21 I know then that thou wert born at that time, and the number of thy years is great.
to know for then to beget and number day your many
22 But hast thou gone to the treasures of snow? and hast thou seen the treasures of hail?
to come (in): come to(wards) treasure snow and treasure hail to see: see
23 And is there a store [of them], for thee against the time of [thine] enemies, for the day of wars and battle?
which to withhold to/for time distress to/for day battle and battle
24 And whence proceeds the frost? or [whence] is the south wind dispersed over the [whole world] under heaven?
where? this [the] way: direction to divide light to scatter east upon land: country/planet
25 And who prepared a course for the violent rain, and a way for the thunders;
who? to divide to/for flood conduit and way: road to/for lightning voice: thunder
26 to rain upon the land where [there is] no man, the wilderness, where there is not a man in it; so as to feed the untrodden and uninhabited [land],
to/for to rain upon land: country/planet not man: anyone wilderness not man in/on/with him
27 and cause it to send forth a crop of green herbs?
to/for to satisfy devastation and desolation and to/for to spring exit grass
28 Who is the rain's father? and who has generated the drops of dew?
there to/for rain father or who? to beget drop dew
29 And out of whose womb comes the ice? and who has produced the frost in the sky,
from belly: womb who? to come out: come [the] ice and frost heaven who? to beget him
30 which descends like flowing water? who has terrified the face of the ungodly?
like/as stone water to hide and face: surface abyss to capture
31 And dost thou understand the band of Pleias, and hast thou opened the barrier of Orion?
to conspire bond Pleiades or cord Orion to open
32 Or wilt thou reveal Mazuroth in his season, and the evening star with his rays? Wilt thou guide them?
to come out: send Mazzaroth in/on/with time his and Bear upon son: child her to lead them
33 And knowest thou the changes of heaven, or the events which take place together under heaven?
to know statute heaven if: surely no to set: make rule his in/on/with land: country/planet
34 And wilt thou call a cloud with thy voice, and will it obey thee with a violent shower of much rain?
to exalt to/for cloud voice your and abundance water to cover you
35 And wilt thou send lightnings, and they shall go? and shall they say to thee, What is [thy pleasure]?
to send: depart lightning and to go: went and to say to/for you look! we
36 And who has given to women skill in weaving, or knowledge of embroidery?
who? to set: put in/on/with inner parts wisdom or who? to give: give to/for heart understanding
37 And who is he that numbers the clouds in wisdom, and has bowed the heaven [down] to the earth?
who? to recount cloud in/on/with wisdom and bag heaven who? to lie down: lay down
38 For it is spread out as dusty earth, and I have cemented it as one hewn stone to another.
in/on/with to pour: pour dust to/for casting and clod to cleave
39 And wilt thou hunt a prey for the lions? and satisfy the desires of the serpents?
to hunt to/for lion prey and living thing lion to fill
40 For they fear in their lairs, and lying in wait couch in the woods.
for to bow in/on/with habitation to dwell in/on/with booth upon ambush
41 And who has prepared food for the raven? for its young ones wander and cry to the Lord, in search of food.
who? to establish: prepare to/for raven food his for (youth his *Q(K)*) to(wards) God to cry to go astray to/for without food

< Job 38 >