- 1. Then answered the Lord vnto Iob out of the whirle winde, and said,
- 2. Who is this that darkeneth the counsell by wordes without knowledge?
- 3. Girde vp nowe thy loynes like a man: I will demande of thee & declare thou vnto me.
- 4. Where wast thou when I layd the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast vnderstanding,
- 5. Who hath layde the measures thereof, if thou knowest, or who hath stretched the line ouer it:
- 6. Whereupon are the foundations thereof set: or who layed the corner stone thereof:
- 7. When the starres of the morning praysed me together, and all the children of God reioyced:
- 8. Or who hath shut vp the Sea with doores, when it yssued and came foorth as out of the wombe:
- 9. When I made the cloudes as a couering thereof, and darkenesse as the swadeling bands thereof:
- 10. When I stablished my commandement vpon it, and set barres and doores,
- 11. And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall it stay thy proude waues.
- 12. Hast thou commanded the morning since thy dayes? Hast thou caused the morning to knowe his place,
- 13. That it might take hold of the corners of the earth, and that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
- 14. It is turned as clay to facion, and all stand vp as a garment.
- 15. And from the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the hie arme shalbe broken.
- 16. Hast thou entred into the bottomes of the sea? Or hast thou walked to seeke out the depth?
- 17. Haue the gates of death bene opened vnto thee? Or hast thou seene the gates of the shadowe of death?
- 18. Hast thou perceiued the breadth of the earth? Tell if thou knowest all this.
- 19. Where is the way where light dwelleth? And where is the place of darkenesse,
- 20. That thou shouldest receiue it in the boundes thereof, and that thou shouldest knowe the paths to the house thereof?
- 21. Knewest thou it, because thou wast then borne, and because the nomber of thy dayes is great?
- 22. Hast thou entred into the treasures of the snow? Or hast thou seene the treasures of ye haile,
- 23. Which I haue hid against the time of trouble, against the day of warre and battell?
- 24. By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the East winde vpon the earth?
- 25. Who hath deuided the spowtes for the raine? Or the way for the lightning of ye thunders,
- 26. To cause it to raine on the earth where no man is, and in the wildernes where there is no man?
- 27. To fulfil the wilde and waste place, and to cause the bud of the herbe to spring forth?
- 28. Who is the father of the rayne? Or who hath begotten the droppes of the dewe?
- 29. Out of whose wombe came the yee? Who hath ingendred the frost of the heauen?
- 30. The waters are hid as with a stone: and the face of the depth is frosen.
- 31. Canst thou restraine the sweete influences of the Pleiades? Or loose the bandes of Orion?
- 32. Canst thou bring foorth Mazzaroth in their time? Canst thou also guide Arcturus with his sonnes?
- 33. Knowest thou the course of heauen, or canst thou set the rule thereof in the earth?
- 34. Canst thou lift vp thy voice to the cloudes that the aboundance of water may couer thee?
- 35. Canst thou sende the lightenings that they may walke, and say vnto thee, Loe, heere we are?
- 36. Who hath put wisedome in the reines? Or who hath giuen the heart vnderstanding?
- 37. Who can nomber cloudes by wisedome? Or who can cause to cease the bottels of heaue,
- 38. When the earth groweth into hardnesse, and the clottes are fast together?
- 39. Wilt thou hunt the pray for the lyon? or fill the appetite of the lyons whelpes,
- 40. When they couch in their places, and remaine in the couert to lye in waite?
- 41. Who prepareth for the rauen his meate, when his birdes crie vnto God, wandering for lacke of meate?
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