- 1. Then the Lord answered Iob out of the whirlewind, and sayd,
- 2. Who is this that darkneth counsell by words without knowledge?
- 3. Gird vp nowe thy loines like a man; for I will demaund of thee, and answere thou me.
- 4. Where wast thou when I layd the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast vnderstanding.
- 5. Who hath layd the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched the line vpon it?
- 6. Wherepuon are the foundations thereof fastened? Or who layd the corner stone thereof?
- 7. When the morning starres sang together, and all the sonnes of God shouted for ioy.
- 8. Or who shut vp the sea with doores, when it brake foorth as if it had issued out of the wombe?
- 9. When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thicke darknesse a swadling band for it,
- 10. And brake vp for it my decreed place, and set barres and doores,
- 11. And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and heere shall thy proud waues be stayed.
- 12. Hast thou commaunded the morning since thy daies? And caused the day-spring to know his place,
- 13. That it might take hold of the endes of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
- 14. It is turned as clay to the seale, and they stand as a garment.
- 15. And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arme shalbe broken.
- 16. Hast thou entred into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?
- 17. Haue the gates of death bene opened vnto thee? Or hast thou seene the doores of the shadow of death?
- 18. Hast thou perceiued the breadth of the earth? Declare if thou knowest it all.
- 19. Where is the way where light dwelleth? And as for darknesse, where is the place thereof?
- 20. That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the pathes to the house thereof.
- 21. Knowest thou it, because thou wast then borne? Or because the number of thy daies is great?
- 22. Hast thou entred into the treasures of the snowe? Or hast thou seene the treasures of the haile,
- 23. Which I haue reserued against the time of trouble, against the day of battaile and warre?
- 24. By what way is the light parted? Which scattereth the East wind vpon the earth.
- 25. Who hath diuided a water-course for the ouerflowing of waters? Or a way for the lightning of thunder,
- 26. To cause it to raine on the earth, where no man is: on the wildernesse wherein there is no man?
- 27. To satisfie the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herbe to spring forth.
- 28. Hath the raine a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
- 29. Out of whose wombe came the yce? And the hoary frost of heauen, who hath gendred it?
- 30. The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deepe is frozen.
- 31. Canst thou bind the sweete influences of Pleiades? Or loose the bands of Orion?
- 32. Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season, or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sonnes?
- 33. Knowest thou the ordinances of heauen? Canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
- 34. Canst thou lift vp thy voice to the cloudes, that abundance of waters may couer thee?
- 35. Canst thou send lightnings, that they may goe, and say vnto thee, Here we are?
- 36. Who hath put wisedome in the inward parts? Or who hath giuen vnderstanding to the heart?
- 37. Who can number the cloudes in wisedome? Or who can stay the bottles of heauen,
- 38. When the dust groweeh into hardnesse, and the clods cleaue fast together?
- 39. Wilt thou hunt the pray for the lyon? Or fill the appetite of the young lyons,
- 40. When they couch in their dennes, and abide in the couert to lie in waite?
- 41. Who prouideth for the rauen his foode? when his young ones cry vnto God, they wander for lacke of meate.
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