Chapter Text
38:1 Then answered the Lord vnto Iob out of the whirle winde, and said,
38:2 Who is this that darkeneth the counsell by wordes without knowledge?
38:3 Girde vp nowe thy loynes like a man: I will demande of thee and declare thou vnto me.
38:4 Where wast thou when I layd the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast vnderstanding,
38:5 Who hath layde the measures thereof, if thou knowest, or who hath stretched the line ouer it:
38:6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof set: or who layed the corner stone thereof:
38:7 When the starres of the morning praysed me together, and all the children of God reioyced:
38:8 Or who hath shut vp the Sea with doores, when it yssued and came foorth as out of the wombe:
38:9 When I made the cloudes as a couering thereof, and darkenesse as the swadeling bands thereof:
38:10 When I stablished my commandement vpon it, and set barres and doores,
38:11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall it stay thy proude waues.
38:12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy dayes? hast thou caused the morning to knowe his place,
38:13 That it might take hold of the corners of the earth, and that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
38:14 It is turned as clay to facion, and all stand vp as a garment.
38:15 And from the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the hie arme shalbe broken.
38:16 Hast thou entred into the bottomes of the sea? or hast thou walked to seeke out the depth?
38:17 Haue the gates of death bene opened vnto thee? or hast thou seene the gates of the shadowe of death?
38:18 Hast thou perceiued the breadth of the earth? tell if thou knowest all this.
38:19 Where is the way where light dwelleth? and where is the place of darkenesse,
38:20 That thou shouldest receiue it in the boundes thereof, and that thou shouldest knowe the paths to the house thereof?
38:21 Knewest thou it, because thou wast then borne, and because the nomber of thy dayes is great?
38:22 Hast thou entred into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seene the treasures of ye haile,
38:23 Which I haue hid against the time of trouble, against the day of warre and battell?
38:24 By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the East winde vpon the earth?
38:25 Who hath deuided the spowtes for the raine? or the way for the lightning of ye thunders,
38:26 To cause it to raine on the earth where no man is, and in the wildernes where there is no man?
38:27 To fulfil the wilde and waste place, and to cause the bud of the herbe to spring forth?
38:28 Who is the father of the rayne? or who hath begotten the droppes of the dewe?
38:29 Out of whose wombe came the yee? who hath ingendred the frost of the heauen?
38:30 The waters are hid as with a stone: and the face of the depth is frosen.
38:31 Canst thou restraine the sweete influences of the Pleiades? or loose the bandes of Orion?
38:32 Canst thou bring foorth Mazzaroth in their time? canst thou also guide Arcturus with his sonnes?
38:33 Knowest thou the course of heauen, or canst thou set the rule thereof in the earth?
38:34 Canst thou lift vp thy voice to the cloudes that the aboundance of water may couer thee?
38:35 Canst thou sende the lightenings that they may walke, and say vnto thee, Loe, heere we are?
38:36 Who hath put wisedome in the reines? or who hath giuen the heart vnderstanding?
38:37 Who can nomber cloudes by wisedome? or who can cause to cease the bottels of heaue,
38:38 When the earth groweth into hardnesse, and the clottes are fast together?