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Passage Lookup: Job 38

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Job 38:1
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Then the Lord answered Job from the whirlwind.(a) He said:
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Job 38:2
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Who is this who obscures My counsel with ignorant words?(b)
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Job 38:3
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Get ready to answer Me like a man; when I question(c) you, you will inform Me.
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Job 38:4
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Where were you when I established(d) the earth? Tell Me, if you have[a] understanding.
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Job 38:5
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Who fixed its dimensions? Certainly you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?
Job 38:6
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What supports its foundations? Or who laid its cornerstone
Job 38:7
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while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God(e) shouted for joy?
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Job 38:8
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Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst from the womb,
Job 38:9
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when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,[b](f)
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Job 38:10
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when I determined its boundaries[c] and put its bars and doors in place,
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Job 38:11
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when I declared: "You may come this far, but no farther; your proud waves stop here"?
Job 38:12
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Have you ever in your life commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,
Job 38:13
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so it may seize the edges of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?
Job 38:14
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The earth is changed as clay is by a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.
Job 38:15
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Light[d] is withheld from the wicked, and the arm raised in violence is broken.
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Job 38:16
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Have you traveled to the sources of the sea or walked in the depths of the oceans?
Job 38:17
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Have the gates(g) of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
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Job 38:18
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Have you comprehended the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.
Job 38:19
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Where is the road to the home of light? Do you know where darkness lives,
Job 38:20
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so you can lead it back to its border? Are you familiar with the paths to its home?
Job 38:21
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Don't you know? You were already born;(h) you have lived so long![e]
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Job 38:22
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Have you entered the place where the snow is stored? Or have you seen the storehouses of hail,(i)
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Job 38:23
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which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of warfare and battle?(j)
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Job 38:24
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What road leads to the place where light is dispersed?[f] Where is the source of the east wind that spreads across the earth?
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Job 38:25
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Who cuts a channel for the flooding rain or clears the way for lightning,
Job 38:26
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to bring rain on an uninhabited land, on a desert with no human life,[g]
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Job 38:27
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to satisfy the parched wasteland and cause the grass to sprout?(k)
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Job 38:28
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Does the rain have a father? Who fathered the drops of dew?(l)
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Job 38:29
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Whose womb did the ice come from? Who gave birth to the frost of heaven
Job 38:30
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when water becomes as hard as stone,[h] and the surface of the watery depths is frozen?(m)
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Job 38:31
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Can you fasten the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?
Job 38:32
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Can you bring out the constellations[i] in their season and lead the Bear[j] and her cubs?(n)
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Job 38:33
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Do you know the laws(o) of heaven? Can you impose its[k] authority on earth?
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Job 38:34
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Can you command[l] the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?(p)
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Job 38:35
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Can you send out lightning(q) bolts, and they go? Do they report to you: "Here we are"?
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Job 38:36
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Who put wisdom(r) in the heart[m] or gave the mind understanding?
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Job 38:37
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Who has the wisdom to number the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of heaven
Job 38:38
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when the dust hardens like cast metal and the clods of dirt stick together?
Job 38:39
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Can you hunt prey for a lioness or satisfy the appetite of young lions(s)
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Job 38:40
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when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait within their lairs?
Job 38:41
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Who provides the raven's food(t) when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?
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