Job 38
1 And he answered Yahweh Job (from - *Q(K)*) (the tempest *Q(k)*) and he said.
And the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said,
2 Who? this - [is] making dark counsel by words not knowledge.
Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?
3 Gird up please like a man loins your and I will ask you and make known to me.
Get your strength together like a man of war; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.
4 Where? were you when founded I [the] earth tell if you know understanding.
Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.
5 Who? did he appoint measurements its for you know or who? did he stretch out on it a measuring-line.
By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?
6 On what? bases its were they sunk or who? did he lay [the] stone of corner its.
On what were its pillars based, or who put down its angle-stone,
7 When sang together [the] stars of morning and they shouted all [the] sons of God.
When the morning stars made songs together, and all the sons of the gods gave cries of joy?
8 And he shut off with doors [the] sea when burst forth it from [the] womb it came forth.
Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;
9 When made I cloud[s] clothing its and thick darkness swaddling-band its.
When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it,
10 And I broke on it boundary my and I set in place a bar and doors.
Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;
11 And I said to here you will come and not you will add and here someone will fix in [the] pride of waves your.
And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?
12 ¿ From days your have you commanded morning (you caused to know the dawn *Q(K)*) place its.
Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;
13 To take hold on [the] corners of the earth so they may be shaken wicked [people] from it.
So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?
14 It is changed like [the] clay of a seal so they may stand forth like clothing.
It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe;
15 So it may be withheld from wicked [people] light their and an arm uplifted it is broken.
And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken.
16 ¿ Have you gone to [the] springs of [the] sea and in [the] depth of [the] deep have you walked about?
Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?
17 ¿ Have they been revealed to you [the] gates of death and [the] gates of deep darkness have you seen?
Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?
18 Have you shown yourself attentive? to [the] broad spaces of [the] earth tell if you know all of it.
Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all.
19 Where? this [is] the way [where] it dwells light and darkness where? this [is] place its.
Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;
20 That you will take it to territory its and that you will discern [the] paths of house its.
So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house?
21 You know for then you were born and [the] number of days your [is] many.
No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great.
22 ¿ Have you gone into [the] storehouses of snow and [the] storehouses of hail have you seen?
Have you come into the secret place of snow, or have you seen the store-houses of the ice-drops,
23 Which I have kept back for [the] time of distress for [the] day of battle and warfare.
Which I have kept for the time of trouble, for the day of war and fighting?
24 Where? this [is] the way [where] it is divided light [where] it scatters [the] east wind over [the] earth.
Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?
25 Who? does he divide for the flood a channel and a path for [the] storm of thunder claps.
By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder;
26 To send rain on a land not anyone a wilderness [which] not anyone [is] in it.
Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;
27 To satisfy devastation and desolation and to cause to sprout a going forth of vegetation.
To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?
28 ¿ [is] there For the rain a father or who? does he father [the] drops of dew.
Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist?
29 From [the] womb of whom? does it come forth the ice and [the] frost of heaven who? does he give birth to it.
Out of whose body came the ice? and who gave birth to the cold mist of heaven?
30 Like stone waters they become hard and [the] surface of [the] deep they freeze.
The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.
31 ¿ Will you bind on [the] bonds of Pleiades or? [the] chains of Orion will you loosen.
Are the bands of the Pleiades fixed by you, or are the cords of Orion made loose?
32 ¿ Will you lead out [the] constellations at appropriate time its and [the] Bear with young ones its will you guide? them.
Do you make Mazzaroth come out in its right time, or are the Bear and its children guided by you?
33 ¿ Do you know [the] statutes of [the] heavens or? do you appoint rule its over the earth.
Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?
34 ¿ Will you lift up to the cloud[s] voice your and an abundance of water will you cover? yourself.
Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?
35 ¿ Will you send forth lightning so they may go and they may say to you here [are] we.
Do you send out the thunder-flames, so that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?
36 Who? has he put in the inner parts wisdom or who? has he given to the heart understanding.
Who has put wisdom in the high clouds, or given knowledge to the lights of the north?
37 Who? will he count [the] clouds by wisdom and [the] waterskins of heaven who? will he make to lie down.
By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth,
38 When flows [the] dust into lump and [the] clods they are joined together.
When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses?
39 ¿ Will you hunt for a lion prey and [the] life of young lions will you fill?
Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough,
40 If they will crouch in dens they will remain in thicket for lying-in-wait.
When they are stretched out in their holes, and are waiting in the brushwood?
41 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.
Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food?
