Job 38
1 and to answer LORD [obj] Job (from *Q(K)*) ([the] tempest *Q(k)*) and to say
Then did the Lord address Job out of the storm-wind, and said,
2 who? this to darken counsel in/on/with speech without knowledge
Who is this that casteth darkness [on my] counsel by words without knowledge?
3 to gird please like/as great man loin your and to ask you and to know me
Do but gird up like a mighty man thy loins: and I will ask thee, and do thou inform 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? tell it, if thou hast any understanding [of it].
5 who? to set: make measurement her for to know or who? to stretch upon her line
Who fixed her measurements, if thou knowest it? or who stretched the measuring-line over her?
6 upon what? socket her to sink or who? to shoot stone corner her
Upon what are her foundation-pillars placed at rest? or who laid her corner-stone:
7 in/on/with to sing unitedness star morning and to shout all son: child God
When altogether sang the morning stars in gladness, and shouted for joy all the sons of God?
8 and to fence in/on/with door sea in/on/with to burst/come out he from womb to come out: produce
And who closed up with doors the sea, when, issuing forth, it came out of the deep bosom of the earth?
9 in/on/with to set: make I cloud clothing his and cloud swaddling his
When I made the clouds its garment, and thick fog its swaddling-cloth,
10 and to break upon him statute: allotment my and to set: make bar and door
And when I decreed for it my law, and set [for 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 said, Thus far mayest thou come, but no farther; and here shall be stayed [thy strength] in the pride of thy waves?
12 from day your to command morning (to know [the] dawn *Q(K)*) place his
Didst thou ever, in all thy days, command the morning; didst thou ever assign the morning-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 lay hold of the ends of the earth, so that the wicked might be shaken out therefrom?
14 to overturn like/as homer signet and to stand like clothing
She is changed as the sealing-clay: and [all things] stand as though newly clad.
15 and to withhold from wicked light their and arm to exalt to break
And from the wicked is their light withdrawn, and the high-raised arm is broken.
16 to come (in): come till spring sea and in/on/with search abyss to go: walk
Didst thou ever penetrate as far as the springs of the sea? or wander through the bottom of the deep?
17 to reveal: reveal to/for you gate death and gate shadow to see: see
Were the gates of death ever laid open unto thee? or canst thou see the doors of the shadow of death?
18 to understand till breadth land: country/planet to tell if to know all her
Hast thou a clear understanding of the breadth of the earth? Tell it, 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 spot where] the light dwelleth? and the darkness—where is its place,
20 for to take: take him to(wards) border: area his and for to understand path house: home his
That thou mightest take each to its boundary, and that thou mightest mark the pathways to its house?
21 to know for then to beget and number day your many
Thou [surely] knowest it; because 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
Didst thou ever enter into the treasuries of the snow? or canst thou see the treasuries of the hail,
23 which to withhold to/for time distress to/for day battle and battle
Which I have reserved for the time of distress, for the day of fight and battle?
24 where? this [the] way: direction to divide light to scatter east upon land: country/planet
Where is the way [to the spot where] the light divideth itself, [where] the east wind is scattered over the earth?
25 who? to divide to/for flood conduit and way: road to/for lightning voice: thunder
Who hath divided off watercourses for the overflowing rain, and a way for the lightning [that is followed by] thunders,
26 to/for to rain upon land: country/planet not man: anyone wilderness not man in/on/with him
To bring rain on a land, void of men; on a wilderness wherein no son of earth [is found];
27 to/for to satisfy devastation and desolation and to/for to spring exit grass
To satisfy waste and desolate lands; and to promote the growth of the tender grass?
28 there to/for rain father or who? to beget drop dew
Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of the dew?
29 from belly: womb who? to come out: come [the] ice and frost heaven who? to beget him
Out of whose womb cometh forth the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven—who giveth birth to it?
30 like/as stone water to hide and face: surface abyss to capture
[When] like a stone the waters are congealed, and the face of the deep is bound in fetters?
31 to conspire bond Pleiades or cord Orion to open
Canst thou bind together the chains of the Pleiades, or loosen 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 bring forth the constellations of the zodiac, each in its season? or canst thou guide the Bear with its young?
33 to know statute heaven if: surely no to set: make rule his in/on/with land: country/planet
Knowest thou the laws of heaven? or dost thou appoint its rule on the earth?
34 to exalt to/for cloud voice your and abundance water to cover you
Canst thou lift up to the clouds thy voice, that the 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 out lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here are we?
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 dark clouds? or who hath given understanding to the bright meteors?
37 who? to recount cloud in/on/with wisdom and bag heaven who? to lie down: lay down
Who ordaineth the skies with wisdom? or who emptieth out the bottles of heaven.
38 in/on/with to pour: pour dust to/for casting and clod to cleave
When the dust is poured out as molten metal, and the clods are made to cleave fast together?
39 to hunt to/for lion prey and living thing lion to fill
Dost thou hunt for the lioness her prey? and suppliest thou the food for the young lions,
40 for to bow in/on/with habitation to dwell in/on/with booth upon ambush
When they are couched in their lairs, rest in the thicket, lying 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 provision? when his young ones cry unto God, and wander about for lack of food?
