< 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 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 the foundations of the earth? declare, 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 of it, 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 the foundations of it fastened? or who laid its corner stone;
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, 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 a cloud its garment, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
10 and to break upon him statute: allotment my and to set: make bar and door
And broke 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, 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; 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 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
Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou 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 revealed to thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
18 to understand till breadth land: country/planet to tell if to know all her
Hast thou perceived the breadth 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 where light dwelleth? and as for 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 shouldest take it to its bound, and that thou shouldest know the paths to its house?
21 to know for then to beget and number day your many
Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because 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 into 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, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?
25 who? to divide to/for flood conduit and way: road to/for lightning voice: thunder
Who hath 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, in which 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 the 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 hath 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
Canst thou 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
Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in its season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with its 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 heaven? canst thou set its dominion on the earth?
34 to exalt to/for cloud voice your and abundance water to cover you
Canst thou lift 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 lightnings, that they may go, 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 inward parts? or who hath 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 pour out the water bottles of heaven,
38 in/on/with to pour: pour dust to/for casting and clod to cleave
When the dust groweth into hardness, 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 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 crouch 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 food? when his young ones cry to God, they wander for want of food.

< Job 38 >