Job 38
1 Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind,
And he answered Yahweh Job (from - *Q(K)*) (the tempest *Q(k)*) and he said.
2 “Who is this who questions my wisdom by talking so ignorantly?
Who? this - [is] making dark counsel by words not knowledge.
3 Prepare yourself, be strong, for I am going to question you, and you must answer me.
Gird up please like a man loins your and I will ask you and make known to me.
4 Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have such knowledge!
Where? were you when founded I [the] earth tell if you know understanding.
5 Who decided its dimensions? Don't you know? Who stretched out a measuring line?
Who? did he appoint measurements its for you know or who? did he stretch out on it a measuring-line.
6 What do its foundations rest upon? Who laid its cornerstone,
On what? bases its were they sunk or who? did he lay [the] stone of corner its.
7 when the stars of the morning sang together and all the angels shouted for joy.
When sang together [the] stars of morning and they shouted all [the] sons of God.
8 Who laid down the boundaries of the sea when it was born?
And he shut off with doors [the] sea when burst forth it from [the] womb it came forth.
9 Who clothed it with clouds, and wrapped it in a blanket of deep darkness?
When made I cloud[s] clothing its and thick darkness swaddling-band its.
10 I set its limits, marking its borders.
And I broke on it boundary my and I set in place a bar and doors.
11 I said, ‘You may come here, but no farther. Here is where your proud waves stop.’
And I said to here you will come and not you will add and here someone will fix in [the] pride of waves your.
12 During your lifetime, have you ever ordered the morning to begin?
¿ From days your have you commanded morning (you caused to know the dawn *Q(K)*) place its.
13 Have you ever told the dawn where to appear that it might take hold of the corners of the earth and shake the wicked out?
To take hold on [the] corners of the earth so they may be shaken wicked [people] from it.
14 The earth is changed like clay under a seal; its features stand out like a crumpled garment.
It is changed like [the] clay of a seal so they may stand forth like clothing.
15 The ‘light’ of the wicked is taken away from them; their acts of violence are stopped.
So it may be withheld from wicked [people] light their and an arm uplifted it is broken.
16 Have you entered the sources of the sea? Have you explored their hidden depths?
¿ Have you gone to [the] springs of [the] sea and in [the] depth of [the] deep have you walked about?
17 Have you been shown where the gates of death are? Have you seen the gates of utter darkness?
¿ Have they been revealed to you [the] gates of death and [the] gates of deep darkness have you seen?
18 Do you know how far the earth extends? Tell me if you know all this!
Have you shown yourself attentive? to [the] broad spaces of [the] earth tell if you know all of it.
19 In which direction does light live? Where does darkness dwell?
Where? this [is] the way [where] it dwells light and darkness where? this [is] place its.
20 Can you take them home? Do you know the way to where they live?
That you will take it to territory its and that you will discern [the] paths of house its.
21 Of course you know, because you were already born then! You've lived so long!
You know for then you were born and [the] number of days your [is] many.
22 Have you been to where the snow is kept? Have you seen where the hail is held?
¿ Have you gone into [the] storehouses of snow and [the] storehouses of hail have you seen?
23 I have stored them up for the time of trouble, for the day of war and battle.
Which I have kept back for [the] time of distress for [the] day of battle and warfare.
24 Do you know the way to where light comes from, or to where the east wind blows over the earth?
Where? this [is] the way [where] it is divided light [where] it scatters [the] east wind over [the] earth.
25 Who cuts a channel for the rain to flow? Who creates a path for the thunderbolt?
Who? does he divide for the flood a channel and a path for [the] storm of thunder claps.
26 Who brings rain to an uninhabited land, to a desert where nobody lives,
To send rain on a land not anyone a wilderness [which] not anyone [is] in it.
27 to water a parched wasteland to make the green grass grow?
To satisfy devastation and desolation and to cause to sprout a going forth of vegetation.
28 Does the rain have a father? Who was the father of the dewdrops?
¿ [is] there For the rain a father or who? does he father [the] drops of dew.
29 Who was the mother of ice? Does the frost of the air have a mother?
From [the] womb of whom? does it come forth the ice and [the] frost of heaven who? does he give birth to it.
30 Water turns into rock-hard ice; its surface freezes solid.
Like stone waters they become hard and [the] surface of [the] deep they freeze.
31 Can you tie together the stars of the Pleiades? Can you loosen the belt of the Orion constellation?
¿ Will you bind on [the] bonds of Pleiades or? [the] chains of Orion will you loosen.
32 Can you guide the stars of Mazzaroth at the right time? Can you direct the Great Bear constellation and its other stars?
¿ Will you lead out [the] constellations at appropriate time its and [the] Bear with young ones its will you guide? them.
33 Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you apply them to the earth?
¿ Do you know [the] statutes of [the] heavens or? do you appoint rule its over the earth.
34 Can you shout to the clouds and command them to pour rain down on you?
¿ Will you lift up to the cloud[s] voice your and an abundance of water will you cover? yourself.
35 Can you send out bolts of lightning and direct them, so that they can answer you saying, ‘Here we are’?
¿ Will you send forth lightning so they may go and they may say to you here [are] we.
36 Who has placed wisdom inside people? Who has given understanding to the mind?
Who? has he put in the inner parts wisdom or who? has he given to the heart understanding.
37 Who is clever enough to count the clouds? Who can turn heaven's water jars on their sides
Who? will he count [the] clouds by wisdom and [the] waterskins of heaven who? will he make to lie down.
38 when the dust has baked into a solid mass?
When flows [the] dust into lump and [the] clods they are joined together.
39 Can you hunt prey for the lion? Can you feed the lion cubs
¿ Will you hunt for a lion prey and [the] life of young lions will you fill?
40 as they crouch down in their dens and lie in wait in the bushes?
If they will crouch in dens they will remain in thicket for lying-in-wait.
41 Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God, weak from starvation?
Who? does he prepare for the raven food-supply its if (young ones its *Q(K)*) to God they will cry for help they will wander about for not food.
