Job 38
1 and to answer LORD [obj] Job (from *Q(K)*) ([the] tempest *Q(k)*) and to say
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:
2 who? this to darken counsel in/on/with speech without knowledge
“Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?
3 to gird please like/as great man loin your and to ask you and to know me
Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.
4 where? to be in/on/with to found I land: country/planet to tell if to know understanding
Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.
5 who? to set: make measurement her for to know or who? to stretch upon her line
Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?
6 upon what? socket her to sink or who? to shoot stone corner her
On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone,
7 in/on/with to sing unitedness star morning and to shout all son: child God
while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8 and to fence in/on/with door sea in/on/with to burst/come out he from womb to come out: produce
Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
9 in/on/with to set: make I cloud clothing his and cloud swaddling his
when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,
10 and to break upon him statute: allotment my and to set: make bar and door
when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,
11 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
and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?
12 from day your to command morning (to know [the] dawn *Q(K)*) place his
In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,
13 to/for to grasp in/on/with wing [the] land: country/planet and to shake wicked from her
that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?
14 to overturn like/as homer signet and to stand like clothing
The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.
15 and to withhold from wicked light their and arm to exalt to break
Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.
16 to come (in): come till spring sea and in/on/with search abyss to go: walk
Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?
17 to reveal: reveal to/for you gate death and gate shadow to see: see
Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
18 to understand till breadth land: country/planet to tell if to know all her
Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.
19 where? this [the] way: direction to dwell light and darkness where? this place his
Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,
20 for to take: take him to(wards) border: area his and for to understand path house: home his
so you can lead it back to its border? Do you know the paths to its home?
21 to know for then to beget and number day your many
Surely you know, for you were already born! And the number of your days is great!
22 to come (in): come to(wards) treasure snow and treasure hail to see: see
Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,
23 which to withhold to/for time distress to/for day battle and battle
which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of war and battle?
24 where? this [the] way: direction to divide light to scatter east upon land: country/planet
In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?
25 who? to divide to/for flood conduit and way: road to/for lightning voice: thunder
Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,
26 to/for to rain upon land: country/planet not man: anyone wilderness not man in/on/with him
to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,
27 to/for to satisfy devastation and desolation and to/for to spring exit grass
to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?
28 there to/for rain father or who? to beget drop dew
Does the rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?
29 from belly: womb who? to come out: come [the] ice and frost heaven who? to beget him
From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,
30 like/as stone water to hide and face: surface abyss to capture
when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?
31 to conspire bond Pleiades or cord Orion to open
Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?
32 to come out: send Mazzaroth in/on/with time his and Bear upon son: child her to lead them
Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear and her cubs?
33 to know statute heaven if: surely no to set: make rule his in/on/with land: country/planet
Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?
34 to exalt to/for cloud voice your and abundance water to cover you
Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?
35 to send: depart lightning and to go: went and to say to/for you look! we
Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
36 who? to set: put in/on/with inner parts wisdom or who? to give: give to/for heart understanding
Who has put wisdom in the heart or given understanding to the mind?
37 who? to recount cloud in/on/with wisdom and bag heaven who? to lie down: lay down
Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens
38 in/on/with to pour: pour dust to/for casting and clod to cleave
when the dust hardens into a mass and the clods of earth stick together?
39 to hunt to/for lion prey and living thing lion to fill
Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions
40 for to bow in/on/with habitation to dwell in/on/with booth upon ambush
when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait in the thicket?
41 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
Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?
