Job 38
1 And after Elius had ceased from speaking, the Lord spoke to Job through the whirlwind and clouds, [saying],
And he answered Yahweh Job (from - *Q(K)*) (the tempest *Q(k)*) and he said.
2 Who is this that hides counsel from me, and confines words in [his] heart, and thinks to conceal [them] from me?
Who? this - [is] making dark counsel by words not knowledge.
3 Gird your loins like a man; and I will ask you, and do you answer me.
Gird up please like a man loins your and I will ask you and make known to me.
4 Where was you when I founded the earth? tell me now, if you have knowledge,
Where? were you when founded I [the] earth tell if you know understanding.
5 who set the measures of it, if you know? or who stretched a line upon it?
Who? did he appoint measurements its for you know or who? did he stretch out on it a measuring-line.
6 On what are its rings fastened? and who is he that laid the corner-stone upon it?
On what? bases its were they sunk or who? did he lay [the] stone of corner its.
7 When the stars were made, all my angels praised me with a loud voice.
When sang together [the] stars of morning and they shouted all [the] sons of God.
8 And I shut up the sea with gates, when it rushed out, coming forth out its mother's womb.
And he shut off with doors [the] sea when burst forth it from [the] womb it came forth.
9 And I made a cloud its clothing, and swathed it in mist.
When made I cloud[s] clothing its and thick darkness swaddling-band its.
10 And I set bounds to it, surrounding it with bars and gates.
And I broke on it boundary my and I set in place a bar and doors.
11 And I said to it, Hitherto shall you come, but you shall not go beyond, but your waves shall be confined within you.
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 Or did I order the morning light in your time; and [did] the morning star [then first] see his appointed place;
¿ From days your have you commanded morning (you caused to know the dawn *Q(K)*) place its.
13 to lay hold of the extremities of the earth, to cast out the ungodly out of it?
To take hold on [the] corners of the earth so they may be shaken wicked [people] from it.
14 Or did you take clay of the ground, and form a living creature, and set it with the power of speech upon the earth?
It is changed like [the] clay of a seal so they may stand forth like clothing.
15 And have you removed light from the ungodly, and crushed the arm of the proud?
So it may be withheld from wicked [people] light their and an arm uplifted it is broken.
16 Or have you gone to the source of the sea, and walked in the tracks of the deep?
¿ Have you gone to [the] springs of [the] sea and in [the] depth of [the] deep have you walked about?
17 And do the gates of death open to you for fear; and did the porters of hell quake when they saw you? (questioned)
¿ Have they been revealed to you [the] gates of death and [the] gates of deep darkness have you seen?
18 And have you been instructed in the breadth of the [whole earth] under heaven? tell me now, what is the extent of it?
Have you shown yourself attentive? to [the] broad spaces of [the] earth tell if you know all of it.
19 And in what kind of a land does the light dwell? and of what kind is the place of darkness?
Where? this [is] the way [where] it dwells light and darkness where? this [is] place its.
20 If you could bring me to their [utmost] boundaries, and if also you know their paths;
That you will take it to territory its and that you will discern [the] paths of house its.
21 I know then that you were born at that time, and the number of your years is great.
You know for then you were born and [the] number of days your [is] many.
22 But have you gone to the treasures of snow? and have you seen the treasures of hail?
¿ Have you gone into [the] storehouses of snow and [the] storehouses of hail have you seen?
23 And is there a store [of them], for you against the time of [your] enemies, for the day of wars and battle?
Which I have kept back for [the] time of distress for [the] day of battle and warfare.
24 And whence proceeds the frost? or [whence] is the south wind dispersed over the [whole world] under heaven?
Where? this [is] the way [where] it is divided light [where] it scatters [the] east wind over [the] earth.
25 And who prepared a course for the violent rain, and a way for the thunders;
Who? does he divide for the flood a channel and a path for [the] storm of thunder claps.
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 send rain on a land not anyone a wilderness [which] not anyone [is] in it.
27 and cause it to send forth a crop of green herbs?
To satisfy devastation and desolation and to cause to sprout a going forth of vegetation.
28 Who is the rain's father? and who has generated the drops of dew?
¿ [is] there For the rain a father or who? does he father [the] drops of dew.
29 And out of whose womb comes the ice? and who has produced the frost in the sky,
From [the] womb of whom? does it come forth the ice and [the] frost of heaven who? does he give birth to it.
30 which descends like flowing water? who has terrified the face of the ungodly?
Like stone waters they become hard and [the] surface of [the] deep they freeze.
31 And do you understand the band of Pleias, and have you opened the barrier of Orion?
¿ Will you bind on [the] bonds of Pleiades or? [the] chains of Orion will you loosen.
32 Or will you reveal Mazuroth in his season, and the evening star with his rays? Will you guide them?
¿ Will you lead out [the] constellations at appropriate time its and [the] Bear with young ones its will you guide? them.
33 And know you the changes of heaven, or the events which take place together under heaven?
¿ Do you know [the] statutes of [the] heavens or? do you appoint rule its over the earth.
34 And will you call a cloud with your voice, and will it obey you with a violent shower of much rain?
¿ Will you lift up to the cloud[s] voice your and an abundance of water will you cover? yourself.
35 And will you send lightnings, and they shall go? and shall they say to you, What is [your pleasure]?
¿ Will you send forth lightning so they may go and they may say to you here [are] we.
36 And who has given to women skill in weaving, or knowledge of embroidery?
Who? has he put in the inner parts wisdom or who? has he given to the heart understanding.
37 And who is he that numbers the clouds in wisdom, and has bowed the heaven [down] to the earth?
Who? will he count [the] clouds by wisdom and [the] waterskins of heaven who? will he make to lie down.
38 For it is spread out as dusty earth, and I have cemented it as one hewn stone to another.
When flows [the] dust into lump and [the] clods they are joined together.
39 And will you hunt a prey for the lions? and satisfy the desires of the serpents?
¿ Will you hunt for a lion prey and [the] life of young lions will you fill?
40 For they fear in their lairs, and lying in wait couch in the woods.
If they will crouch in dens they will remain in thicket for lying-in-wait.
41 And who has prepared food for the raven? for its young ones wander and cry to the Lord, in search of food.
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.
