Job 38
1 Then Yahweh spoke to Job from inside a great windstorm. He said to him,
And he answered Yahweh Job (from - *Q(K)*) (the tempest *Q(k)*) and he said.
2 “(Who are you to question what I plan to do?/You have no right/authority to question what I plan to do.) [RHQ] You are speaking ignorantly!
Who? this - [is] making dark counsel by words not knowledge.
3 I want to ask you [some] questions, so, just like men prepare themselves for a difficult task [MET], prepare to answer my questions.
Gird up please like a man loins your and I will ask you and make known to me.
4 (“Where were you/Were you there with me) [long ago] when I (laid the foundations of/created) the earth? Since you know so much, tell me [where you were at that time].
Where? were you when founded I [the] earth tell if you know understanding.
5 Do you know how I decided how large the earth would be? Do you know who stretched a measuring tape around the earth? Surely [since you think that you know so much, ] you should know that!
Who? did he appoint measurements its for you know or who? did he stretch out on it a measuring-line.
6 What supports the pillars on which the earth rests? When the stars [that shine early] in the morning sang together, and someone put in place the stone that causes the earth to stay in its place, and all the angels shouted joyfully [when they saw that happening], who laid that cornerstone? [Did you?]
On what? bases its were they sunk or who? did he lay [the] stone of corner its.
When sang together [the] stars of morning and they shouted all [the] sons of God.
8 “When the seas poured forth from inside the earth, who prevented the water from flooding over the land?
And he shut off with doors [the] sea when burst forth it from [the] womb it came forth.
9 It was I, [not you, ] who caused clouds to come over the seas and caused it to become very dark [under those clouds].
When made I cloud[s] clothing its and thick darkness swaddling-band its.
10 I set limits for the seas, and I put barriers [so that the water would not come over the land].
And I broke on it boundary my and I set in place a bar and doors.
11 [I pointed to the shore] and said to the water, ‘I permit you to come up to here, but I do not permit you to come any farther. Your powerful waves must stop there!’
And I said to here you will come and not you will add and here someone will fix in [the] pride of waves your.
12 “Job, have you [ever] commanded the morning [to begin]? Have you [ever] told the dawn to start a new day?
¿ From days your have you commanded morning (you caused to know the dawn *Q(K)*) place its.
13 Have you [ever] told the dawn to spread out over the whole earth, with the result that wicked people run away from the light?
To take hold on [the] corners of the earth so they may be shaken wicked [people] from it.
14 When it becomes light after the dawn, the hills and the valleys become clear like the folds in a cloth.
It is changed like [the] clay of a seal so they may stand forth like clothing.
15 When it becomes daylight, the wicked do not have the darkness [that they like]; [in the daylight] they no longer are able to raise up their arms, ready to hurt people.
So it may be withheld from wicked [people] light their and an arm uplifted it is broken.
16 “[Job, ] have you traveled to the springs [in the bottom of the ocean] from which the water in the seas comes? Have you investigated/explored the very bottom of the oceans?
¿ Have you gone to [the] springs of [the] sea and in [the] depth of [the] deep have you walked about?
17 Has someone shown you the gates to the place where dead people are, the gates to the place where it is very dark?
¿ Have they been revealed to you [the] gates of death and [the] gates of deep darkness have you seen?
18 Do you know how big the earth is? Tell me, if you know all these things!
Have you shown yourself attentive? to [the] broad spaces of [the] earth tell if you know all of it.
19 “Where is the road to the place where light comes from? And [can you tell me] where darkness lives?
Where? this [is] the way [where] it dwells light and darkness where? this [is] place its.
20 Can take me to its home? Do you know where the road is that goes there?
That you will take it to territory its and that you will discern [the] paths of house its.
21 I am sure that you know these things, because you [talk as though you] were born before the time when all things were created; you [must] be very old!
You know for then you were born and [the] number of days your [is] many.
22 “Have you entered the place where I store the snow and the place where I keep the hail?
¿ Have you gone into [the] storehouses of snow and [the] storehouses of hail have you seen?
23 I store the snow and the hail [in order that I can use them to help my people] when [they have] troubles, in times when [they are fighting] wars [DOU].
Which I have kept back for [the] time of distress for [the] day of battle and warfare.
24 And where is the road to the place from which I cause the lightning to flash? Where is the place from where the east wind begins to blow over all the earth?
Where? this [is] the way [where] it is divided light [where] it scatters [the] east wind over [the] earth.
25 Who created the channels in which the rain comes down from the sky? Who makes the roads for the thunder/lightning?
Who? does he divide for the flood a channel and a path for [the] storm of thunder claps.
26 Who causes rain to fall in the desert, in places where no one lives?
To send rain on a land not anyone a wilderness [which] not anyone [is] in it.
27 Who sends the rain that gives moisture/water to areas where nothing has grown, with the result that grass begins to grow again?
To satisfy devastation and desolation and to cause to sprout a going forth of vegetation.
28 Does the rain have a father? Does the dew [also] have a father?
¿ [is] there For the rain a father or who? does he father [the] drops of dew.
29 And from whose womb does ice come [in the (winter/cold season)]? Who gives birth to the frost that comes down from the sky?
From [the] womb of whom? does it come forth the ice and [the] frost of heaven who? does he give birth to it.
30 [In the winter, ] the water [freezes and] becomes hard, like a rock, and the surface of lakes becomes frozen.
Like stone waters they become hard and [the] surface of [the] deep they freeze.
31 “[Job], can you fasten the chains that hold the stars together in clusters/groups in the sky?
¿ Will you bind on [the] bonds of Pleiades or? [the] chains of Orion will you loosen.
32 Can you tell the stars when they should shine? Can you guide [the stars in the groups in the northern sky whose names are] the Big Bear and the Little Bear?
¿ Will you lead out [the] constellations at appropriate time its and [the] Bear with young ones its will you guide? them.
33 Do you know the laws that the stars must obey? Can you cause those same laws to rule [everything here] on the earth?
¿ Do you know [the] statutes of [the] heavens or? do you appoint rule its over the earth.
34 “Can you shout to the clouds and cause rain to pour down on you?
¿ Will you lift up to the cloud[s] voice your and an abundance of water will you cover? yourself.
35 Can you cause flashes of lightning to come down and strike where you want it to strike? Do those flashes say to you, ‘Where do you want us to strike next?’
¿ Will you send forth lightning so they may go and they may say to you here [are] we.
36 Who enables the clouds to know when they should cause rain to fall?
Who? has he put in the inner parts wisdom or who? has he given to the heart understanding.
37 And who is skilled/wise enough to be able to count the clouds? Who can tilt the jugs of water in the sky [to cause the rain to fall],
Who? will he count [the] clouds by wisdom and [the] waterskins of heaven who? will he make to lie down.
38 with the result that the dry ground becomes hard as the dry (clods/lumps of soil) [become wet and] stick together?
When flows [the] dust into lump and [the] clods they are joined together.
39 “When a lioness and her cubs crouch in their dens or hide in a thicket, [waiting for some animal to pass by that they can kill, ] can you find animals for a lioness to kill so that [she and] her cubs can [eat the meat and] not be hungry any more?
¿ Will you hunt for a lion prey and [the] life of young lions will you fill?
If they will crouch in dens they will remain in thicket for lying-in-wait.
41 Who provides dead animals for crows, when the baby crows are calling out to me [for food], [when they are so weak] because of their lack of food [that] they (stagger around/can hardly stand up) [in their nests]?”
Who? does he prepare for the raven food-supply its if (young ones its *Q(K)*) to God they will cry for help they will wander about for not food.
