< 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 a whirlwind, and said:
2 who? this to darken counsel in/on/with speech without knowledge
Who is this that wrappeth up sentences in unskillful words?
3 to gird please like/as great man loin your and to ask you and to know me
Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and answer thou me.
4 where? to be in/on/with to found I land: country/planet to tell if to know understanding
Where wast thou when I laid up the foundations of the earth? tell me if thou hast understanding.
5 who? to set: make measurement her for to know or who? to stretch upon her line
Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
6 upon what? socket her to sink or who? to shoot stone corner her
Upon what are its bases grounded? or who laid the corner stone thereof,
7 in/on/with to sing unitedness star morning and to shout all son: child God
When the morning stars praised me together, and all the sons of God made a joyful melody?
8 and to fence in/on/with door sea in/on/with to burst/come out he from womb to come out: produce
Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb:
9 in/on/with to set: make I cloud clothing his and cloud swaddling his
When I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in a mist as in swaddling bands?
10 and to break upon him statute: allotment my and to set: make bar and door
I set my bounds around it, and made it 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 said: Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and here thou shalt break thy swelling waves.
12 from day your to command morning (to know [the] dawn *Q(K)*) place his
Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place?
13 to/for to grasp in/on/with wing [the] land: country/planet and to shake wicked from her
And didst thou hold the extremities of the earth shaking them, and hast thou shaken the ungodly out of it?
14 to overturn like/as homer signet and to stand like clothing
The seal shall be restored as clay, and shall stand as a garment:
15 and to withhold from wicked light their and arm to exalt to break
From the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the high arm shall be broken.
16 to come (in): come till spring sea and in/on/with search abyss to go: walk
Hast thou entered into the depths of the sea, and walked in the lowest parts of the deep?
17 to reveal: reveal to/for you gate death and gate shadow to see: see
Have the gates of death been opened to thee, and hast thou seen the darksome doors?
18 to understand till breadth land: country/planet to tell if to know all her
Hast thou considered the breadth of the earth? tell me, if thou knowest all things?
19 where? this [the] way: direction to dwell light and darkness where? this place his
Where is the way where light dwelleth, and where is the place of darkness:
20 for to take: take him to(wards) border: area his and for to understand path house: home his
That thou mayst bring every thing to its own bounds, and understand the paths of the house thereof.
21 to know for then to beget and number day your many
Didst thou know then that thou shouldst be born? and didst thou know the number of thy days?
22 to come (in): come to(wards) treasure snow and treasure hail to see: see
Hast thou entered into the storehouses of the snow, or has thou beheld the treasures of the hail:
23 which to withhold to/for time distress to/for day battle and battle
Which I have prepared for the time of the enemy, against the day of battle and war?
24 where? this [the] way: direction to divide light to scatter east upon land: country/planet
By what way is the light spread, and heat divided upon the earth?
25 who? to divide to/for flood conduit and way: road to/for lightning voice: thunder
Who gave a course to violent showers, or a way for noisy thunder:
26 to/for to rain upon land: country/planet not man: anyone wilderness not man in/on/with him
That it should rain on the earth without man in the wilderness, where no mortal dwelleth:
27 to/for to satisfy devastation and desolation and to/for to spring exit grass
That it should fill the desert and desolate land, and should bring forth green grass?
28 there to/for rain father or who? to beget drop dew
Who is the father of rain? or who begot the drops of dew?
29 from belly: womb who? to come out: come [the] ice and frost heaven who? to beget him
Out of whose womb came the ice; and the frost from heaven who hath gendered it?
30 like/as stone water to hide and face: surface abyss to capture
The waters are hardened like a stone, and the surface of the deep is congealed.
31 to conspire bond Pleiades or cord Orion to open
Shalt thou be able to join together the shining stars the Pleiades, or canst thou stop the turning about of Arcturus?
32 to come out: send Mazzaroth in/on/with time his and Bear upon son: child her to lead them
Canst thou bring forth the day star in its time, and make the evening star to rise upon the children of the earth?
33 to know statute heaven if: surely no to set: make rule his in/on/with land: country/planet
Dost thou know the order of heaven, and canst thou set down the reason thereof on the earth?
34 to exalt to/for cloud voice your and abundance water to cover you
Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that an abundance of waters may cover thee?
35 to send: depart lightning and to go: went and to say to/for you look! we
Canst thou send lightnings, and will they go, and will they return and say to thee: Here we are?
36 who? to set: put in/on/with inner parts wisdom or who? to give: give to/for heart understanding
Who hath put wisdom in the heart of man? or who gave the cock understanding?
37 who? to recount cloud in/on/with wisdom and bag heaven who? to lie down: lay down
Who can declare the order of the heavens, or who can make the harmony of heaven to sleep?
38 in/on/with to pour: pour dust to/for casting and clod to cleave
When was the dust poured on the earth, and the clods fastened together?
39 to hunt to/for lion prey and living thing lion to fill
Wilt thou take the prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite of her whelps,
40 for to bow in/on/with habitation to dwell in/on/with booth upon ambush
When they couch in the dens and lie in wait in holes?
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 provideth food for the raven, when her young ones cry to God, wandering about, because they have no meat?

< Job 38 >