IV.
The dialogue between God and Job
38:1—42:6
A.
Jehovah answering Job out of the whirlwind
38:1-3
Job 38
:1
38:1
aThen Jehovah
1answered Job out of the whirlwind and said,
Job 38
:2
38:2
Who is this who darkens counsel
By words without
aknowledge?
Job 38
:3
38:3
aGird up now your loins like a mighty man;
For I will ask of you, and you shall inform Me.
B.
God appearing to Job with the divine unveilings
38:4—39:30
1.
Concerning the universe
38:4-38
Job 38
:4
38:4
1Where were you when I laid the
2afoundations of the earth?
Tell
Me, if you have understanding.
Job 38
:5
38:5
Who set its measurements — if you know?
Or who stretched the measuring line over it?
Job 38
:6
38:6
Onto what were its bases sunk,
Or who laid its cornerstone,
Job 38
:7
38:7
When the
1morning astars sang together
And all the
bsons of God shouted for joy?
Job 38
:8
38:8
And who hedged in the
asea with doors
When it burst forth, issuing from the womb,
Job 38
:9
38:9
When I made clouds its clothing
And deep
adarkness its swaddling clothes,
Job 38
:10
38:10
And I broke out My
aboundaries for it
And set up bars and doors,
Job 38
:11
38:11
And I said, To here you shall come and no farther,
And here shall your proud
awaves be stopped?
Job 38
:12
38:12
Have you ever commanded the morning since your days
began?
Have you ever caused the dawn to know its place,
Job 38
:13
38:13
So that it might take hold of the ends of the earth,
And the wicked might be shaken out of it?
Job 38
:14
38:14
1The earth is changed like clay under a seal,
And
2all things on it stand forth like a garment.
Job 38
:15
38:15
And from the wicked their light is withheld,
And the high arm is broken.
Job 38
:16
38:16
Have you entered into the springs of the
asea,
Or have you walked about in the recesses of the
bdeep?
Job 38
:17
38:17
Have the
agates of death been revealed to you,
Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Job 38
:18
38:18
Have you comprehended the full expanse of the earth?
Declare
it, if you know it all.
Job 38
:19
38:19
Where is the way to the dwelling of the light?
And the darkness, where is its place,
Job 38
:20
38:20
That you may take it to its boundary,
And that you may perceive the paths to its house?
Job 38
:21
38:21
You know, for you were born then,
And the number of your days is great.
Job 38
:22
38:22
Have you entered into the storehouses of the snow,
Or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
Job 38
:23
38:23
aWhich I have reserved for the day of calamity,
For the day of battle and of war?
Job 38
:24
38:24
Where is the way to
the place where the light is divided,
To
the place where the east wind scatters upon the earth?
Job 38
:25
38:25
Who cut a channel for the rain torrent,
Or a way for the thunderbolt,
Job 38
:26
38:26
To make it
arain on a land where no man is,
On a wilderness in which there is no man;
Job 38
:27
38:27
To satisfy the waste and desolate land
And to cause the shoots of
agrass to sprout?
Job 38
:28
38:28
Does the rain have a father?
Or who begot the drops of dew?
Job 38
:29
38:29
From whose womb does the
aice come forth?
And the frost of heaven, who gave birth to it?
Job 38
:30
38:30
The waters hide themselves
and become like stone,
And the surface of the deep is frozen.
Job 38
:31
38:31
Can you fasten the bands of the
aPleiades,
Or loosen the cords of Orion?
Job 38
:32
38:32
Can you lead forth the
1Mazzaroth in their season?
Or can you guide the Bear with its cubs?
Job 38
:33
38:33
Do you know the laws of the heavens?
Do you establish their
arule on the earth?
Job 38
:34
38:34
Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,
So that a flood of water would cover you?
Job 38
:35
38:35
Can you send forth lightnings, so that they would go
And say to you, Here we are?
Job 38
:36
38:36
Who has put
awisdom in the inward parts,
Or given understanding to the
1mind?
Job 38
:37
38:37
Who can number the clouds by wisdom,
Or who can tip over the water jars of heaven,
Job 38
:38
38:38
When the dust runs into a mass
And the clods stick together?
2.
Concerning the animals
38:39—39:30
Job 38
:39
38:39
Can you hunt prey for the lioness,
Or satisfy the appetite of the young
alions,
Job 38
:40
38:40
When they crouch in their dens,
When they lie in wait in the thicket?
Job 38
:41
38:41
Who provides for the
araven its prey
When its young ones cry out to God
And wander about for lack of food?
