ഇയ്യോബ് 38
Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind,
“Who is this who questions my wisdom by talking so ignorantly?
Prepare yourself, be strong, for I am going to question you, and you must answer me.
Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have such knowledge!
Who decided its dimensions? Don't you know? Who stretched out a measuring line?
6 ൬ പ്രഭാതനക്ഷത്രങ്ങൾ ഒന്നിച്ച് ഘോഷിച്ചുല്ലസിക്കുകയും ദൈവപുത്രന്മാരെല്ലാം സന്തോഷിച്ചാർക്കുകയും ചെയ്തപ്പോൾ
What do its foundations rest upon? Who laid its cornerstone,
when the stars of the morning sang together and all the angels shouted for joy.
Who laid down the boundaries of the sea when it was born?
Who clothed it with clouds, and wrapped it in a blanket of deep darkness?
I set its limits, marking its borders.
11 ൧൧ ‘ഇത്രത്തോളം നിനക്കുവരാം; ഇത് കടക്കരുത്; ഇവിടെ നിന്റെ തിരമാലകളുടെ ഗർവ്വം നിലയ്ക്കും’ എന്ന് കല്പിച്ചു.
I said, ‘You may come here, but no farther. Here is where your proud waves stop.’
During your lifetime, have you ever ordered the morning to begin?
13 ൧൩ നിന്റെ ജീവകാലത്ത് ഒരിക്കലെങ്കിലും നീ പ്രഭാതത്തിന് കല്പന കൊടുക്കുകയും അരുണോദയത്തിന് സ്ഥലം നിർദ്ദേശിക്കുകയും ചെയ്തിട്ടുണ്ടോ?
Have you ever told the dawn where to appear that it might take hold of the corners of the earth and shake the wicked out?
The earth is changed like clay under a seal; its features stand out like a crumpled garment.
The ‘light’ of the wicked is taken away from them; their acts of violence are stopped.
Have you entered the sources of the sea? Have you explored their hidden depths?
Have you been shown where the gates of death are? Have you seen the gates of utter darkness?
Do you know how far the earth extends? Tell me if you know all this!
In which direction does light live? Where does darkness dwell?
Can you take them home? Do you know the way to where they live?
Of course you know, because you were already born then! You've lived so long!
Have you been to where the snow is kept? Have you seen where the hail is held?
I have stored them up for the time of trouble, for the day of war and battle.
Do you know the way to where light comes from, or to where the east wind blows over the earth?
Who cuts a channel for the rain to flow? Who creates a path for the thunderbolt?
Who brings rain to an uninhabited land, to a desert where nobody lives,
to water a parched wasteland to make the green grass grow?
Does the rain have a father? Who was the father of the dewdrops?
Who was the mother of ice? Does the frost of the air have a mother?
Water turns into rock-hard ice; its surface freezes solid.
Can you tie together the stars of the Pleiades? Can you loosen the belt of the Orion constellation?
32 ൩൨ നിനക്ക് രാശിചക്രത്തെ അതിന്റെ കാലത്ത് പുറപ്പെടുവിക്കാമോ? സപ്തർഷികളെയും മക്കളെയും നിനക്ക് നടത്താമോ?
Can you guide the stars of Mazzaroth at the right time? Can you direct the Great Bear constellation and its other stars?
Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you apply them to the earth?
Can you shout to the clouds and command them to pour rain down on you?
35 ൩൫ “അടിയങ്ങൾ വിടകൊള്ളുന്നു” എന്ന് നിന്നോട് പറഞ്ഞ് പുറപ്പെടുവാൻ തക്കവിധം നിനക്ക് മിന്നലുകളെ പറഞ്ഞയക്കാമോ?
Can you send out bolts of lightning and direct them, so that they can answer you saying, ‘Here we are’?
Who has placed wisdom inside people? Who has given understanding to the mind?
Who is clever enough to count the clouds? Who can turn heaven's water jars on their sides
when the dust has baked into a solid mass?
Can you hunt prey for the lion? Can you feed the lion cubs
as they crouch down in their dens and lie in wait in the bushes?
41 ൪൧ കാക്കക്കുഞ്ഞുങ്ങൾ ഇരകിട്ടാതെ ഉഴന്ന് ദൈവത്തോട് നിലവിളിക്കുമ്പോൾ അതിന് തീറ്റ എത്തിച്ച് കൊടുക്കുന്നതാര്?
Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God, weak from starvation?
