1And the LORD answered Job out of the tempest, and said, 2Who [is] this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? 3Now gird up your loins like a man; for I will ask of you, and you teach Me. 4Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell if you have understanding! 5Who has set its measurements, for you know? Or who has stretched the line on it? 6On what [are] its bases sunk, or who cast its cornerstone, 7when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy? 8Or [who] shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as it came from the womb? 9When I made the clouds its robe, and darkness its navel-band, 10and set My limit on it, and set bars and doors, 11and I said, You shall come to here, but no further; and here your proud waves shall stop. 12Have you commanded the morning from your days, [and] caused the dawn to know its place, 13that it might take hold of the ends of the earth; that the wicked might be shaken out of it? 14It is turned like clay [under] a seal; and they stand forth like a garment. 15And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the high arm shall be broken. 16Have you gone to the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in search of the depths? 17Have the gates of death been opened to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death? 18Have you understood the breadth of the earth? Tell, if you know it all! 19Where [is] the way [where] light dwells? And where [is] the place of darkness, 20that you should take it to its boundary, and that you should know the paths [to] its house? 21You know, because you were born then. And the number of your days [is] great? 22Have you entered into the storehouses of the snow? Or have you seen the storehouses of the hail, 23which I have kept for the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war? 24How [is] it, way the light distributed, [and how does] the east wind spread itself on the earth? 25Who has cut a channel for the flood, or a way for the thunderclaps; 26to cause rain to fall on the earth [where] no man [is], a wilderness and no man in it; 27to satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the source of grass to spring forth? 28Has the rain a father? Or who has brought forth the drops of dew? 29Out of whose womb came the ice? And the frost of the heavens, who fathered it? 30The waters are hidden like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen. 31Can you bind the bands of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion? 32Can you bring the constellations in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with its sons? 33Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you set up their rulership on the earth? 34Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, so that floods of waters may cover you? 35Can you send lightnings, that they may go, and say to you, Here we [are] ? 36Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind? 37Who can number the clouds by wisdom; or who can empty out the jars of the heavens, 38when the dust is melted [into] hardness, and the clods cling fast together? 39Will you hunt the prey for the lion, or fill the appetite of the young lions, 40when they crouch in dens, [and] sit in the cover of their hiding place? 41Who provides food for the raven, when its young ones cry to God [and] wander about without food?