Job / God's Response from the Whirlwind and the Wonders of Creation (part 1)

God's Response from the Whirlwind and the Wonders of Creation (part 1)

Job 38:1-41

Chapter 38

¹ Then the LORD answered Job from the storm and said. ² Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge? ³ Gird your loins now like a man. I will ask you, and you answer me. ⁴ Where were you when the foundations of the earth were laid? If you have understanding. ⁵ Who set its measurement, for you know? Or who stretched a line over it? ⁶ On what were its bases cast down, or who stretched out its cornerstone? ⁷ When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy. ⁸ And he shrouded the sea with doors when it burst forth; from the womb it came out. ⁹ When I made a cloud its garment and thick darkness swaddled it. ¹⁰ And I broke statutes upon it, and I set a bar and doors. ¹¹ and I said, "You shall come this far and no farther, and here your proud waves shall be stayed." ¹² Have you commanded the morning in your days? You knew its place for the dawn to rise. ¹³ to grasp the earth by its wings and shake wickedness off it. ¹⁴ It transforms like clay under a signet ring, and they stand like a garment. ¹⁵ And it restrains the wicked from their light, and you shatter the arm raised high. ¹⁶ Have you come to the depths of the sea, and have you walked in the depths? ¹⁷ Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness? ¹⁸ Have you discerned the great expanses of the earth? If you have known all of it? ¹⁹ Where is the way to where light dwells, and the place of darkness? ²⁰ For you take it to its boundary, and for you understand the ancient paths of its house. ²¹ You know, for then you were born, and the number of your days is many. ²² Have you entered the storehouses of the snow and the storehouses of the hail—you see? ²³ which I have reserved for a time of affliction, for a day of battle and war. ²⁴ What is the way to this? He divides light; he scatters the east wind upon the face of the earth. ²⁵ Who has divided a channel for the torrent of a burnt offering, and a way for the lightning of voices? ²⁶ to rain on a land where no man lives, no wilderness man, no Adam in it ²⁷ to satiate the storm and storm-cloud and to sprout a layer of herbage ²⁸ Does the rain have a father, or who begot the drops of dew? ²⁹ Who came out from the womb of the ice, and who gave birth to the frost of the heavens? ³⁰ The waters hide themselves like a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen. ³¹ Can you bind the clusters of Kesil or loosen the cords of Kimah? ³² Can you bring out the Mazzaroth in its season, and console the cluster upon your sons? ³³ Do you know the statutes of the heavens? Or can you set its rule on the earth? ³⁴ Can you lift up your voice to the cloud, and an abundance of waters will cover you? ³⁵ Will you send out lightnings, and will they go and say to you, "Here we are"? ³⁶ Who has placed wisdom in the inward parts, or who has given understanding to the shakwi? ³⁷ Who counts the clouds in wisdom, and who lays down the bottles of the heavens? ³⁸ when the clods of dust pour firm and the clods cling ³⁹ Will you hunt prey for the lioness and fill the mouths of the young lions? ⁴⁰ For they crouch in dens, they sit in a booth; for them he lies in wait. ⁴¹ Who prepares prey for the raven, when its young cry out to God? They stagger about without eating.