< 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 that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
3 to gird please like/as great man loin your and to ask you and to know me
Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto 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 the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast the understanding.
5 who? to set: make measurement her for to know or who? to stretch upon her line
Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched the line upon it?
6 upon what? socket her to sink or who? to shoot stone corner her
Whereupon were the foundations thereof fastened? 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 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
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, and issued out of the womb;
9 in/on/with to set: make I cloud clothing his and cloud swaddling his
When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
10 and to break upon him statute: allotment my and to set: make bar and door
And prescribed for it My decree, and set 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 said: 'Thus far shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed'?
12 from day your to command morning (to know [the] dawn *Q(K)*) place his
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days began, and caused the dayspring to know its place;
13 to/for to grasp in/on/with wing [the] land: country/planet and to shake wicked from her
That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?
14 to overturn like/as homer signet and to stand like clothing
It is changed as clay under the seal; and they stand as a garment.
15 and to withhold from wicked light their and arm to exalt to break
But from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm is broken.
16 to come (in): come till spring sea and in/on/with search abyss to go: walk
Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked in the recesses 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 unto thee? Or hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?
18 to understand till breadth land: country/planet to tell if to know all her
Hast thou surveyed unto the breadths of the earth? Declare, if thou knowest it all.
19 where? this [the] way: direction to dwell light and darkness where? this place his
Where is the way to the dwelling of light, and as for darkness, where is the place thereof;
20 for to take: take him to(wards) border: area his and for to understand path house: home his
That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?
21 to know for then to beget and number day your many
Thou knowest it, for thou wast then born, and the number of thy days is great!
22 to come (in): come to(wards) treasure snow and treasure hail to see: see
Hast thou entered the treasuries of the snow, or hast thou seen the treasuries of the hail,
23 which to withhold to/for time distress to/for day battle and battle
Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, 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 parted, or the east wind scattered upon the earth?
25 who? to divide to/for flood conduit and way: road to/for lightning voice: thunder
Who hath cleft a channel for the waterflood, or a way for the lightning of the thunder;
26 to/for to rain upon land: country/planet not man: anyone wilderness not man in/on/with him
To cause it to rain on a land where no man is, on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;
27 to/for to satisfy devastation and desolation and to/for to spring exit grass
To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
28 there to/for rain father or who? to beget drop dew
Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten 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 hoar-frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
30 like/as stone water to hide and face: surface abyss to capture
The waters are congealed like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
31 to conspire bond Pleiades or cord Orion to open
Canst thou bind the chains of the Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
32 to come out: send Mazzaroth in/on/with time his and Bear upon son: child her to lead them
Canst thou lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season? Or canst thou guide the Bear with her sons?
33 to know statute heaven if: surely no to set: make rule his in/on/with land: country/planet
Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens? Canst thou establish the dominion thereof in 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 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 forth lightnings, that they may go, and say unto 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 inward parts? Or who hath given understanding to the mind?
37 who? to recount cloud in/on/with wisdom and bag heaven who? to lie down: lay down
Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven,
38 in/on/with to pour: pour dust to/for casting and clod to cleave
When the dust runneth into a mass, and the clods cleave fast together?
39 to hunt to/for lion prey and living thing lion to fill
Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lioness? Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
40 for to bow in/on/with habitation to dwell in/on/with booth upon ambush
When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?
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 for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry unto God, and wander for lack of food?

< Job 38 >