Job 38:4-41

Coverdale^{(i) 4} Where wast thou, when I layed ye foundacions of the earth? Tell planely yff thou hast vnderstondinge. ⁵ Who hath measured it, knowest thou? Or, who hath spred ye lyne vpon it? ⁶ Where vpon stode the pilers of it? Or, who layed ye corner stone? ⁷ where wast thou when the mornynge starres gaue me prayse, ad when all the angels of God reioysed? ⁸ Who shutt the see with dores, when it brake forth as a childe out off his mothers wombe? ⁹ When I made the cloudes to be a coueringe for it, and swedled it with ye darcke? ¹⁰ when I gaue it my comaundement, makynge dores & barres for it, ¹¹ sayenge: Hither to shalt thou come, but no further, and here shalt thou laye downe thy proude and hye wawes. ¹² Hast thou geue the mornynge his charge (as soone as thou wast borne) and shewed the dayespringe his place, ¹³ yt it might take holde of the corners of the earth, & yt the vngodly might be shake out? ¹⁴ Their tokes & weapes hast thou turned like claye, & set the vp agayne as the chaunginge of a garment. ¹⁵ Yee thou hast spoyled the vngodly off their light, & broke the arme of the proude. ¹⁶ Camest thou euer into the groude of the see, Or, hast thou walked in ye lowe corners of ye depe? ¹⁷ Haue the gates of death bene opened vnto the or hast thou sene the dore of euerlastige treasure? ¹⁸ Hast thou also perceaued, how brode ye earth is? Now yf thou hast knowlege of all, ¹⁹ the shewe me where light dwelleth, and where darcknes is: ²⁰ yt thou mayest bringe vs vnto their quarters, yf thou cast tell the waye to their houses. ²¹ Knewest thou (when thou wast borne) how olde thou shuldest be? ²² Wentest thou euer in to the treasuries off the snowe, or hast thou sene ye secrete places of the hale: ²³ which I haue prepared agaynst the tyme of trouble, agaynst the tyme of batell & warre? ²⁴ By what waye is the light parted, & the heate dealt out vpon earth? ²⁵ Who deuydeth the abundauce of waters in to ryuers, or who maketh a waye for the stormy wether, ²⁶ yt it watereth & moystureth ye drye & baren grounde: ²⁷ to make the grasse growe in places where no body dwelleth, & in the wildernes where no ma remayneth? ²⁸ Who is the father of rayne? Or, who hath begotten the droppes of dew? ²⁹ Out of whose wobe came the yse? who hath gendred the coldnes of ye ayre? ³⁰ yt the waters are as harde as stones, & lye congeeled aboue the depe. ³¹ Hast thou brought ye vij. starres together? Or, art thou able to breake the Circle of heaue? ³² Cast thou bringe forth the mornynge starre or the euenynge starre at couenient tyme, & coueye the home agayne? ³³ Knowest thou the course off heaue, yt thou mayest set vp the ordinaunce therof vpo earth? ³⁴ Morouer, cast thou lift vp thy voyce to ye cloudes, yt they maye poure downe a greate rayne vpo the? ³⁵ Canst thou thodre also yt they maye go their waye, & be obediet vnto the, sayege: lo, here are we? ³⁶ Who geueth sure wisdome, or stedfast vnderstodinge? ³⁷ who nombreth the cloudes in wisdome? who stilleth ye vehement waters of the heaue? ³⁸ who turneth the clottes to dust, & the to be clottes agayne? ³⁹ Huntest thou the praye fro the Lyon, or fedest thou his whelpes ⁴⁰ lyege in their denes & lurkinge in their couches? ⁴¹ who prouydeth meate for the rauen, whe his yonge ones crie vnto God, ad fle aboute for want of meate?