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  • 1. And Jehovah answereth Job out of the whirlwind, and saith: --
  • 2. Who `is' this -- darkening counsel, By words without knowledge?
  • 3. Gird, I pray thee, as a man, thy loins, And I ask thee, and cause thou Me to know.
  • 4. Where wast thou when I founded earth? Declare, if thou hast known understanding.
  • 5. Who placed its measures -- if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched out upon it a line?
  • 6. On what have its sockets been sunk? Or who hath cast its corner-stone?
  • 7. In the singing together of stars of morning, And all sons of God shout for joy,
  • 8. And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out.
  • 9. In My making a cloud its clothing, And thick darkness its swaddling band,
  • 10. And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors,
  • 11. And say, `Hitherto come thou, and add not, And a command is placed On the pride of thy billows.'
  • 12. Hast thou commanded morning since thy days? Causest thou the dawn to know its place?
  • 13. To take hold on the skirts of the earth, And the wicked are shaken out of it,
  • 14. It turneth itself as clay of a seal And they station themselves as clothed.
  • 15. And withheld from the wicked is their light, And the arm lifted up is broken.
  • 16. Hast thou come in to springs of the sea? And in searching the deep Hast thou walked up and down?
  • 17. Revealed to thee were the gates of death? And the gates of death-shade dost thou see?
  • 18. Thou hast understanding, Even unto the broad places of earth! Declare -- if thou hast known it all.
  • 19. Where `is' this -- the way light dwelleth? And darkness, where `is' this -- its place?
  • 20. That thou dost take it unto its boundary, And that thou dost understand The paths of its house.
  • 21. Thou hast known -- for then thou art born And the number of thy days `are' many!
  • 22. Hast thou come in unto the treasure of snow? Yea, the treasures of hail dost thou see?
  • 23. That I have kept back for a time of distress, For a day of conflict and battle.
  • 24. Where `is' this, the way light is apportioned? It scattereth an east wind over the earth.
  • 25. Who hath divided for the flood a conduit? And a way for the lightning of the voices?
  • 26. To cause `it' to rain on a land -- no man, A wilderness -- no man in it.
  • 27. To satisfy a desolate and waste place, And to cause to shoot up The produce of the tender grass?
  • 28. Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
  • 29. From whose belly came forth the ice? And the hoar-frost of the heavens, Who hath begotten it?
  • 30. As a stone waters are hidden, And the face of the deep is captured.
  • 31. Dost thou bind sweet influences of Kimah? Or the attractions of Kesil dost thou open?
  • 32. Dost thou bring out Mazzaroth in its season? And Aysh for her sons dost thou comfort?
  • 33. Hast thou known the statutes of heaven? Or dost thou appoint Its dominion in the earth?
  • 34. Dost thou lift up to the cloud thy voice, And abundance of water doth cover thee?
  • 35. Dost thou send out lightnings, and they go And say unto thee, `Behold us?'
  • 36. Who hath put in the inward parts wisdom? Or who hath given To the covered part understanding?
  • 37. Who doth number the clouds by wisdom? And the bottles of the heavens, Who doth cause to lie down,
  • 38. In the hardening of dust into hardness, And clods cleave together?
  • 39. Dost thou hunt for a lion prey? And the desire of young lions fulfil?
  • 40. When they bow down in dens -- Abide in a thicket for a covert?
  • 41. Who doth prepare for a raven his provision, When his young ones cry unto God? They wander without food.