Job 38
1 and to answer LORD [obj] Job (from *Q(K)*) ([the] tempest *Q(k)*) and to say
And YHWH answers Job out of the whirlwind and says:
2 who? this to darken counsel in/on/with speech without knowledge
“Who [is] this—darkening counsel, By words without knowledge?
3 to gird please like/as great man loin your and to ask you and to know me
Now gird your loins as a man, And I ask you, and you cause Me to know.
4 where? to be in/on/with to found I land: country/planet to tell if to know understanding
Where were you when I founded the earth? Declare, if you have known understanding.
5 who? to set: make measurement her for to know or who? to stretch upon her line
Who placed its measures—if you know? Or who has stretched out a line on it?
6 upon what? socket her to sink or who? to shoot stone corner her
On what have its sockets been sunk? Or who has cast its cornerstone—
7 in/on/with to sing unitedness star morning and to shout all son: child God
In the singing together of [the] stars of morning, When all [the] sons of God shout 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
And He shuts up the sea with doors, In its coming forth, it goes out from the womb.
9 in/on/with to set: make I cloud clothing his and cloud swaddling his
In My making a cloud its clothing, And thick darkness its swaddling band,
10 and to break upon him statute: allotment my and to set: make bar and door
And I measure My statute over it, And place bar 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 say, To here you come, and no more, And a command is placed On the pride of your billows.
12 from day your to command morning (to know [the] dawn *Q(K)*) place his
Have you commanded morning since your days? Do you cause the dawn to know its place?
13 to/for to grasp in/on/with wing [the] land: country/planet and to shake wicked from her
To take hold on the skirts of the earth, And the wicked are shaken out of it,
14 to overturn like/as homer signet and to stand like clothing
It turns itself as clay of a seal And they station themselves as clothed.
15 and to withhold from wicked light their and arm to exalt to break
And their light is withheld from the wicked, And the arm lifted up is broken.
16 to come (in): come till spring sea and in/on/with search abyss to go: walk
Have you come to springs of the sea? And in searching the deep Have you walked up and down?
17 to reveal: reveal to/for you gate death and gate shadow to see: see
Were the gates of death revealed to you? And do you see the gates of death-shade?
18 to understand till breadth land: country/planet to tell if to know all her
You have understanding, Even to the broad places of earth! Declare—if you have known it all.
19 where? this [the] way: direction to dwell light and darkness where? this place his
Where [is] this—the way light dwells? And darkness, where [is] this—its place?
20 for to take: take him to(wards) border: area his and for to understand path house: home his
That you take it to its boundary, And that you understand the paths of its house.
21 to know for then to beget and number day your many
You have known—for then you are born, And the number of your days [are] many!
22 to come (in): come to(wards) treasure snow and treasure hail to see: see
Have you come to the treasure of snow? Indeed, do you see the treasures of hail,
23 which to withhold to/for time distress to/for day battle and battle
That I have kept back for a time of distress, For a day of conflict and battle?
24 where? this [the] way: direction to divide light to scatter east upon land: country/planet
Where [is] this, the way light is apportioned? It scatters an east wind over the earth.
25 who? to divide to/for flood conduit and way: road to/for lightning voice: thunder
Who has divided a conduit for the flood? And a way for the lightning of the voices?
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 [with] no man, A wilderness [with] no man in it.
27 to/for to satisfy devastation and desolation and to/for to spring exit grass
To satisfy a desolate and ruined place, And to cause to shoot up The produce of the tender grass?
28 there to/for rain father or who? to beget drop dew
Does the rain have 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
From whose belly came forth the ice? And the hoarfrost of the heavens, Who has begotten it?
30 like/as stone water to hide and face: surface abyss to capture
Waters are hidden as a stone, And the face of the deep is captured.
31 to conspire bond Pleiades or cord Orion to open
Do you bind the chains of the Pleiades? Or do you open the cords of Orion?
32 to come out: send Mazzaroth in/on/with time his and Bear upon son: child her to lead them
Do you bring out the twelve signs in [their] season? And do you comfort the Great Bear over her sons?
33 to know statute heaven if: surely no to set: make rule his in/on/with land: country/planet
Have you known the statutes of the heavens? Or do you appoint Its dominion in the earth?
34 to exalt to/for cloud voice your and abundance water to cover you
Do you lift up your voice to the cloud, And abundance of water covers you?
35 to send: depart lightning and to go: went and to say to/for you look! we
Do you send out lightnings, and they go And say to you, Behold us?
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 covered part?
37 who? to recount cloud in/on/with wisdom and bag heaven who? to lie down: lay down
Who numbers the clouds by wisdom? And the bottles of the heavens, Who causes to lie down,
38 in/on/with to pour: pour dust to/for casting and clod to cleave
In the hardening of dust into hardness, And clods cleave together?
39 to hunt to/for lion prey and living thing lion to fill
Do you hunt prey for a lion? And fulfill the desire of young lions?
40 for to bow in/on/with habitation to dwell in/on/with booth upon ambush
When they bow down in dens—Abide in a thicket for a covert?
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 prepares for a raven his provision, When his young ones cry to God? They wander without food.”
