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The Book of Job 38

38 Then Yahweh spoke to Job from inside the storm that had been approaching. He said to him,

2 “You have been speaking ignorantly, and as a result,

you have been making it harder for people to understand my actions.

3 I am going to ask you some questions,

so get ready to answer them directly.

4 Where were you when I began to create the earth?

Since you claim to know so much, tell me how I did that.

5 Who decided how large the earth would be?

Who made sure that it was the right size?

If you know as much as you claim, you ought to be able to tell me that.

6-7 6-7What keeps the earth from collapsing?

Who made sure that everything on the earth would be in the right position?

The earth was so beautiful when I made it that it was as if the first stars all sang a song to celebrate it.

All of the angels gave a great cheer when they saw the earth.

8 When I made the land, the sea could have flowed over it.

Who prevented the sea from flooding the earth? 9 Now the clouds in the sky float over the sea as if they were its clothing.

Night and day happen at sea just as they do on land.

10 I decided how much of the area under the sky the sea would cover.

I made barriers at the shore of the sea to keep it off the land.

11 I proclaimed that the sea could only come up so far on the shore and not come any farther.

I said that its great waves could only flow up to a certain place on the land.

12 Job, have you ever commanded a day to begin?

Have you told the sun where it needed to rise on a certain day?

13 When day comes, wicked people all around the world

stop doing the bad things they do at night when no one can see them.

14 In the light of day, people can see the hills and valleys on earth clearly.

The earth seems to take shape the way clay takes shape when people press a seal onto it

or the way folds form in clothing.

15 When daylight comes, wicked people do not have the darkness that they like.

They are no longer able to hurt other people.

16 Job, have you traveled to the springs at the bottom of the sea?

Have you gone and seen what is at the very bottom of the oceans?

17 Has someone shown you how to get to the place where dead people are?

Do you know where the entrance to that dark place is?

18 Do you know how big the earth is?

Tell me, if you know all these things!

19 Do you know how to get to the place where light comes from?

Do you know where darkness comes from?

20 Would you know how to get to those places

so that you could bring light and darkness to them?

21 If you had been alive when I created the world, then you would know the answers to these questions.

But you are not that old, so you certainly do not know the answers.

22 Have you gone into the place where I keep snow,

or have you visited the place where I keep hail?

23 I keep snow and hail so that I can use them to defeat one of the armies

when people are are fighting wars.

24 Would you know how to get to the place where the sun should rise each morning?

Would you know where the east wind should begin to blow over the earth?

25 Could you make rain fall in a certain place?

Could you make a rainstorm go in a certain direction

26 so that it would rain out in the desert,

in a place where no one lives?

27 Would you be able to send rain there to water those barren areas where nothing has grown,

so that grass would begin to grow again?

28 Do you even know where rain comes from?

Do you know how dew forms on the ground overnight?

29 Do you know how water becomes ice in the winter?

Do you know why dew turns into the frost that covers the ground in the winter?

30 Do you know why the surface of lakes freezes in the winter?

You cannot see the water below the surface; it is as if there is a layer of stone on top of it.

31 Can you make stars cluster together, as they do in the cluster you call the Pleiades?

Can you make stars move apart so that they no longer make constellations such as the one you call Orion? 32 Can you make the constellations of stars appear in the sky at the right time of the year?

Can you make the Big Dipper with its handle appear in the right place in the sky?

33 Do you know how the sun, moon, and stars should move through the sky?

Do you know how they should provide heat and light on the earth?

34 Could you shout an order up to a cloud

to make it pour rain down on you?

35 Can you tell flashes of lightning to strike wherever you want?

Would the lightning do what you commanded?

36 Can you determine where it should be cloudy and where it should be sunny?

37 Are you able to count how many clouds there are?

Can you make it rain

38 after it has not rained for such a long time

that the ground is hard and dry?

39-40 39-40Suppose a lioness and her cubs were crouching in their den or hiding in some bushes, waiting for some animal to pass by that they could kill.

Could you make an animal go by that the lioness could kill

so that she and her cubs could eat the meat and not be hungry anymore?

41 Suppose some baby ravens in a nest were chirping loudly because they were hungry.

Suppose they had not eaten in so long that they had become weak.

Could you provide a dead animal whose meat the raven could bring home to its baby birds?

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