Job 38:4-39:30 Where were you when I founded the earth? Tell, if you know discernment,

ECB⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁴ Where were you when I founded the earth? Tell, if you know discernment, ⁵ who set the measurements, if you know? Who stretched the line thereon? ⁶ Whereon are the foundations sunk? Who poured the corner stone ⁷ when the morning stars shouted together and all the sons of Elohim shouted? ⁸ Who hedged in the sea with doors when it gushed? When it issued from the womb? ⁹ When I set the cloud for a robe and dripping darkness for a swathe; ¹⁰ and broke it up for my statute and set bars and doors; ¹¹ and said, Come to here, but add not: And set there the pomp of your waves? ¹² Misvahed you the morning since your days? And had the dawn to know his place? ¹³ And took hold of the wings of the earth to shake the wicked therefrom? ¹⁴ It turns as a seal of clay; and they set themselves as a robe; ¹⁵ and their light is withheld from the wicked and the lofted arm broken. ¹⁶ Enter you the fountains of the sea? Walk you probing the abyss? ¹⁷ Expose you the portals of death? See you the portals of the shadow of death? ¹⁸ Discern you the broadness of the earth? Tell, if you know it all. ¹⁹ Where is this, the way that light tabernacles? And darkness, where is its place? ²⁰ - to take it to the border - to discern the paths to the house? ²¹ Know you, because you were then birthed? - or that the number of your days greaten? ²² Enter you into the treasures of the snow? See you the treasures of the hail ²³ that I spare against the time of tribulation? - against the day of battle and war? ²⁴ Where is this - where light is allotted? - which scatters the easterly on the earth? ²⁵ Who divided a channel for the overflowing of waters? - a way for the lightning of voices? ²⁶ - to rain on the earth, where no man is? - on the wilderness, wherein no humanity is? ²⁷ - to satisfy the devastation and ruin? - to cause the source of the sprout to sprout? ²⁸ Has the rain a father? Who births the drops of dew? ²⁹ From whose belly comes ice? Who births the hoarfrost of the heavens? ³⁰ The waters are hid as a stone and the face of the abyss is captured. ³¹ Bind you the bonds of Kimah? Loose you the cords of Kesil? ³² Bring you forth the constellations in their time? - lead Ash with his sons? ³³ Know you the statutes of the heavens? Set you the dominion in the earth? ³⁴ - lift your voice to the thick clouds so that abundance of waters cover you? ³⁵ - send lightnings to go to you, and say, Here we are? ³⁶ Who put wisdom in the reins? Who gives discernment to the observant? ³⁷ Who scribes the vapours in wisdom? Who causes the bottles of the heavens to lie down ³⁸ when the dust firms to mire and the clods adhere? ³⁹ - hunts the prey for the roaring lion? - fills the life of the whelps ⁴⁰ when they prostrate in their habitations, and settle in the sukkoth/brush arbor to lurk? ⁴¹ Who prepares the hunt for the raven - when his children cry to El? - when they stray without food? ³⁹ ¹ Know you the time of birthing of the wild goats of the rock? - observe the writhing of the hinds? ² - scribe the moons that they fulfill? - know the time they birth? ³ They kneel; they adhere to their children; they send their pangs; ⁴ their sons are plump; they abound with grain; they go forth never to return. ⁵ Who releases the runner liberated? Who looses the bands of the onager? ⁶ - whose house I have set the plains and the saltland his tabernacles. ⁷ He ridicules the multitude of the city; he hears not the clamorings of the exactor; ⁸ the gleanings of the mountains is his pasture and he searches after all the green. ⁹ The reem - wills he to serve you? - to stay overnight by your manger? ¹⁰ - to bind the reem with his band in the furrow? - to harrow the valleys after you? ¹¹ - to confide in him because his force is great? - to leave your labor to him? ¹² - to trust him to return your seed? - to gather it into your threshingfloor? ¹³ Or pinions to leap for joy? Or plumage to the stork? ¹⁴ - who leaves her eggs in the earth and heats them in dust; ¹⁵ and forgets that the foot may squeeze them; or that the field life may trample them. ¹⁶ She hardens her sons as though they are not hers; her labor is in vain without dread: ¹⁷ for Elohah exacts wisdom from her; he allots her no discernment; ¹⁸ at the time she flaps in the heights she ridicules the horse and his rider. ¹⁹ Give you the horse might? - enrobe his neck with thunder? ²⁰ - quiver him as a locust? The majesty of his nostrils is terror. ²¹ He digs in the valley and rejoices in his force; he goes on to confront the armour. ²² He ridicules dread and is not dismayed; he turns not back from the face of the sword; ²³ the quiver whizzes against him - the flaming spear and the dart: ²⁴ he swallows the earth with quaking and commotion; he trusts not the voice of the shophar. ²⁵ He says among the shophars, Aha! And he scents the war afar off - the thunder of the governors and the shouting. ²⁶ Soars the hawk by your discernment? - spreads her wings toward the south? ²⁷ Comes the eagle at your mouth and makes her nest on high? ²⁸ She tabernacles and stays overnight on the rock - on the crag of the rock and the hunthold; ²⁹ from thence she explores for food; her eyes scan afar off; ³⁰ her chicks suck blood; and where the pierced are, there she is.