< 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 darkens 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 your loins like a man; for I will demand of you, and answer you 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? declare, if you have understanding.
5 who? to set: make measurement her for to know or who? to stretch upon her line
Who has laid the measures thereof, if you know? or who has stretched the line upon it?
6 upon what? socket her to sink or who? to shoot stone corner her
Whereupon are 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 brake forth, as if it had 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 swaddling band for it,
10 and to break upon him statute: allotment my and to set: make bar and door
And brake up for it my decreed place, 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, Until now shall you come, but no further: and here shall your proud waves be stayed?
12 from day your to command morning (to know [the] dawn *Q(K)*) place his
Have you commanded the morning since your days; and caused the dayspring to know his 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, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
14 to overturn like/as homer signet and to stand like clothing
It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.
15 and to withhold from wicked light their and arm to exalt to break
And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the high arm shall be broken.
16 to come (in): come till spring sea and in/on/with search abyss to go: walk
Have you entered into the springs of the sea? or have you walked in the search of the depth?
17 to reveal: reveal to/for you gate death and gate shadow to see: see
Have the gates of death been opened unto you? or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?
18 to understand till breadth land: country/planet to tell if to know all her
Have you perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if you know it all.
19 where? this [the] way: direction to dwell light and darkness where? this place his
Where is the way where light dwells? 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 you should take it to the bound thereof, and that you should know the paths to the house thereof?
21 to know for then to beget and number day your many
Know you it, because you were then born? or because 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 into the treasures of the snow? or have you seen the treasures 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, which scatters the east wind upon the earth?
25 who? to divide to/for flood conduit and way: road to/for lightning voice: thunder
Who has divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of 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 the earth, 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
Has the rain a father? or 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
Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who has gendered it?
30 like/as stone water to hide and face: surface abyss to capture
The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
31 to conspire bond Pleiades or cord Orion to open
Can you bind the sweet influences of 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
Can you bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or can you guide Arcturus with his sons?
33 to know statute heaven if: surely no to set: make rule his in/on/with land: country/planet
Know you the ordinances of heaven? can you set the dominion thereof in the earth?
34 to exalt to/for cloud voice your and abundance water to cover you
Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you?
35 to send: depart lightning and to go: went and to say to/for you look! we
Can you send lightnings, that they may go and say unto 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 inward parts? or who has given understanding to the heart?
37 who? to recount cloud in/on/with wisdom and bag heaven who? to lie down: lay down
Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,
38 in/on/with to pour: pour dust to/for casting and clod to cleave
When the dust grows into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?
39 to hunt to/for lion prey and living thing lion to fill
Will you hunt the prey for the lion? or fill 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 provides for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of food.

< Job 38 >