Job 38
1 And he answered Yahweh Job (from - *Q(K)*) (the tempest *Q(k)*) and he said.
Then YHWH answered Job out of the whirlwind,
2 Who? this - [is] making dark counsel by words not knowledge.
"Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
3 Gird up please like a man loins your and I will ask you and make known to me.
Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me.
4 Where? were you when founded I [the] earth tell if you know understanding.
"Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.
5 Who? did he appoint measurements its for you know or who? did he stretch out on it a measuring-line.
Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?
6 On what? bases its were they sunk or who? did he lay [the] stone of corner its.
Whereupon were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone,
7 When sang together [the] stars of morning and they shouted all [the] sons of God.
when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8 And he shut off with doors [the] sea when burst forth it from [the] womb it came forth.
"Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth from the womb,
9 When made I cloud[s] clothing its and thick darkness swaddling-band its.
when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,
10 And I broke on it boundary my and I set in place a bar and doors.
marked out for it my bound, set bars 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, 'Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?'
12 ¿ From days your have you commanded morning (you caused to know the dawn *Q(K)*) place its.
"Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place;
13 To take hold on [the] corners of the earth so they may be shaken wicked [people] from it.
that it might take hold of the farthest parts of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?
14 It is changed like [the] clay of a seal so they may stand forth like clothing.
It is changed as clay under the seal, and stands forth as a garment.
15 So it may be withheld from wicked [people] light their and an arm uplifted it is broken.
From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm 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 entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses 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 gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
18 Have you shown yourself attentive? to [the] broad spaces of [the] earth tell if you know all of it.
Have you comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if you know it all.
19 Where? this [is] the way [where] it dwells light and darkness where? this [is] place its.
"What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,
20 That you will take it to territory its and that you will discern [the] paths of house its.
that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?
21 You know for then you were born and [the] number of days your [is] many.
Surely you know, for you were born then, 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 entered the treasuries of the snow, or have you seen the treasures of the hail,
23 Which I have kept back for [the] time of distress for [the] day of battle and warfare.
which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
24 Where? this [is] the way [where] it is divided light [where] it scatters [the] east wind over [the] earth.
By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?
25 Who? does he divide for the flood a channel and a path for [the] storm of thunder claps.
Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm;
26 To send rain on a land not anyone a wilderness [which] not anyone [is] in it.
To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; on the wilderness, in which there is no man;
27 To satisfy devastation and desolation and to cause to sprout a going forth of vegetation.
to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to spring forth?
28 ¿ [is] there For the rain a father or who? does he father [the] drops of dew.
Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?
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 womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it?
30 Like stone waters they become hard and [the] surface of [the] deep they freeze.
The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.
31 ¿ Will you bind on [the] bonds of Pleiades or? [the] chains of Orion will you loosen.
"Can you fasten the chains of Kimah, or loosen the cords of Kesil?
32 ¿ Will you lead out [the] constellations at appropriate time its and [the] Bear with young ones its will you guide? them.
Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season? Or can you lead Aysh with her children?
33 ¿ Do you know [the] statutes of [the] heavens or? do you appoint rule its over the earth.
Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?
34 ¿ Will you lift up to the cloud[s] voice your and an abundance of water will you cover? yourself.
"Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?
35 ¿ Will you send forth lightning so they may go and they may say to you here [are] we.
Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go? Do they report 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 inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?
37 Who? will he count [the] clouds by wisdom and [the] waterskins of heaven who? will he make to lie down.
Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of the sky,
38 When flows [the] dust into lump and [the] clods they are joined together.
when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together?
39 ¿ Will you hunt for a lion prey and [the] life of young lions will you fill?
"Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
40 If they will crouch in dens they will remain in thicket for lying-in-wait.
when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?
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 provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?
