1Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:
2“Who is this who obscures My counsel
3Now brace yourself 38:3 Hebrew gird up your loins like a man;
4Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?
5Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know!
6On what were its foundations set,
7while the morning stars sang together
8Who enclosed the sea behind doors
9when I made the clouds its garment
10when I fixed its boundaries
11and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther;
12In your days, have you commanded the morning
13that it might spread to the ends of the earth
14The earth takes shape like clay under a seal;
15Light is withheld from the wicked,
16Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea
17Have the gates of death been revealed to you?
18Have you surveyed the extent of the earth?
19Where is the way to the home of light?
20so you can lead it back to its border?
21Surely you know, for you were already born!
22Have you entered the storehouses of snow
23which I hold in reserve for times of trouble,
24In which direction is the lightning dispersed,
25Who cuts a channel for the flood
26to bring rain on a barren land,
27to satisfy the parched wasteland
28Does the rain have a father?
29From whose womb does the ice emerge?
30when the waters become hard as stone
31Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades
32Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons 38:32 Or bring forth Mazzaroth in its season
33Do you know the laws of the heavens?
34Can you command the clouds
35Can you send the lightning bolts on their way?
36Who has put wisdom in the heart 38:36 Or Who has given the ibis wisdom, that is, wisdom about the flooding of the Nile
37Who has the wisdom to count the clouds?
38when the dust hardens into a mass
39Can you hunt the prey for a lioness
40when they crouch in their dens
41Who provides food for the raven