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Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind,
“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me!
“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.
Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?
6 ൬ പ്രഭാതനക്ഷത്രങ്ങൾ ഒന്നിച്ച് ഘോഷിച്ചുല്ലസിക്കുകയും ദൈവപുത്രന്മാരെല്ലാം സന്തോഷിച്ചാർക്കുകയും ചെയ്തപ്പോൾ
What were its foundations fastened on? Or who laid its cornerstone,
when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,
when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,
marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,
11 ൧൧ ‘ഇത്രത്തോളം നിനക്കുവരാം; ഇത് കടക്കരുത്; ഇവിടെ നിന്റെ തിരമാലകളുടെ ഗർവ്വം നിലയ്ക്കും’ എന്ന് കല്പിച്ചു.
and said, ‘You may come here, but no further. Your proud waves shall be stopped here’?
“Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place,
13 ൧൩ നിന്റെ ജീവകാലത്ത് ഒരിക്കലെങ്കിലും നീ പ്രഭാതത്തിന് കല്പന കൊടുക്കുകയും അരുണോദയത്തിന് സ്ഥലം നിർദ്ദേശിക്കുകയും ചെയ്തിട്ടുണ്ടോ?
that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?
It is changed as clay under the seal, and presented as a garment.
From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.
“Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Have you comprehended the earth in its width? Declare, if you know it all.
“What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,
that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?
Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!
Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?
Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm,
to cause it to rain on a land where there is no man, on the wilderness, in which there is no man,
to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to grow?
Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?
Whose womb did the ice come out of? Who has given birth to the gray frost of the sky?
The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.
“Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?
32 ൩൨ നിനക്ക് രാശിചക്രത്തെ അതിന്റെ കാലത്ത് പുറപ്പെടുവിക്കാമോ? സപ്തർഷികളെയും മക്കളെയും നിനക്ക് നടത്താമോ?
Can you lead the constellations out in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?
Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?
“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you?
35 ൩൫ “അടിയങ്ങൾ വിടകൊള്ളുന്നു” എന്ന് നിന്നോട് പറഞ്ഞ് പുറപ്പെടുവാൻ തക്കവിധം നിനക്ക് മിന്നലുകളെ പറഞ്ഞയക്കാമോ?
Can you send out lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?
Who can count the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the containers of the sky,
when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together?
“Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?
41 ൪൧ കാക്കക്കുഞ്ഞുങ്ങൾ ഇരകിട്ടാതെ ഉഴന്ന് ദൈവത്തോട് നിലവിളിക്കുമ്പോൾ അതിന് തീറ്റ എത്തിച്ച് കൊടുക്കുന്നതാര്?
Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?
