Job 38:4-39:30 Where wort thou in my founding the earth? Announce, if thou knewest understanding.

JuliaSmith⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁴ Where wort thou in my founding the earth? Announce, if thou knewest understanding. ⁵ Who set its measures, if thou shalt know? or who stretched the line upon it? ⁶ Upon what were its bases impressed? or who placed its corner-stone? ⁷ In the rejoicing together of the stars of morning, and all the sons of God will shout for joy? ⁸ And he will hedge in the sea with doors in its breaking forth, going forth from the womb. ⁹ In my making the cloud its garment, and darkness its bandage: ¹⁰ And I shall break upon it my law, and I shall set bars and doors; ¹¹ And saying, Even to this shalt thou come, and thou shalt not add: and here in the pride of thy waves, stand thou. ¹² In thy days didst thou command the morning? and didst thou make the dawning know its place? ¹³ To take hold upon the wings of the earth, and the unjust shall be shaken out of it? ¹⁴ It shall be turned as clay to the seal; and they shall stand as clothing. ¹⁵ And their light shall be withheld from the unjust, and the high arm shall be broken. ¹⁶ Didst thou go even to the fountains of the sea? and didst thou go about in searching the depth? ¹⁷ Were the gates of death uncovered to thee? and shalt thou see the gates of the shadow of death? ¹⁸ Wilt thou consider even to the breadth of the earth? Announce if thou knewest all of it ¹⁹ Where the way light shall dwell? and darkness, where its place? ²⁰ That thou shalt take it to its bound, and that thou shalt understand the beaten paths of its house? ²¹ Knewest thou? for shalt thou then be born, and the number of thy days great? ²² Didst thou come into the treasures of snow? and shalt thou see the treasures of hail, ²³ Which I kept back for the time of straits, for the day of encounter and war? ²⁴ Where that way the light will divide, it will scatter the east wind upon the earth? ²⁵ Who divided a channel for the overflowing, and a way for the lightning of the voices? ²⁶ To cause it to rain upon the earth, not a man; the wilderness not a man in it? ²⁷ To satisfy the desolation and burning, and to cause the springing up of the finding of the tender grass? ²⁸ Is there a father to the rain? or who begat the reservoirs of the dew? ²⁹ From whose womb came forth the ice? and the hoarfrost of the heavens, who brought it forth? ³⁰ The waters shall be hid as a stone, and the face of the depth will be taken. ³¹ Wilt thou bind the bands of the cluster, or wilt thou open the cords of Orion? ³² Wilt thou bring forth the twelve signs in its time? and the great bear and his sons, wilt thou guide them? ³³ Knewest thou the laws of the heavens? or wilt thou set up its dominion in the earth? ³⁴ Wilt thou lift up thy voice to the cloud, and abundance of waters shall cover thee? ³⁵ Shalt thou send lightnings, and shall they go and shall they say to thee, Behold us? ³⁶ Who put wisdom in the reins? or who gave understanding to the mind? ³⁷ Who shall number the clouds in wisdom? and who shall cause the bottles of heaven to lie down? ³⁸ In the pouring out of the dust into a melted mass, and the clods will adhere ³⁹ Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? and wilt thou fill up the life of the young lions? ⁴⁰ For they will sink down in the dwellings; they will dwell in the thicket to lie in wait ⁴¹ Who will prepare for the raven his food? for his young will cry to God; they will wander without food. ³⁹ ¹ Knewest thou the time of the bringing forth of the wild goats of the rock? and wilt thou watch the bearing of the hinds? ² Wilt thou number the months they shall fill up? and didst thou know the time of their bringing forth? ³ They will bow, they will bring forth their children, they will cast forth their pains. ⁴ Their sons will be fat, they will increase with grain; they will go forth and not turn back to them. ⁵ Who sent the wild ass free? and who opened the bonds of the wild ass? ⁶ To whom did I set the desert his house, and the salt land his dwellings? ⁷ He will laugh at the multitude of the city; he will not hear the noise of him driving. ⁸ The searching out of the mountains his pasture, and he will seek after every green thing. ⁹ Will the buffalo be willing to serve thee, or will he lodge by thy stall? ¹⁰ Wilt thou bind the buffalo in the furrow with cords, or will he harrow the valleys after thee? ¹¹ Wilt thou trust in him because great his strength? and wilt thou leave to him thy labor? ¹² Wilt thou believe in him that he will turn back thy seed and gather to thy threshing-floor? ¹³ The wings of ostriches exulted; and the wing-feather of the stork and the pinion. ¹⁴ For she will leave her eggs to the earth, and she will warm them in the dust; ¹⁵ And she will forget that the foot will press it, and the beast of the field will crush it ¹⁶ She made hard to her sons as not to her: her labor in vain without fear; ¹⁷ For God caused her to forget wisdom, and he divided not to her in understanding. ¹⁸ For the time she will lash herself up upon height, she will laugh at the horse and at his rider. ¹⁹ Wilt thou give strength to the horse? wilt thou clothe his neck with thunder? ²⁰ Wilt thou cause him to tremble as the locust? the glory of his snorting is terror. ²¹ They will dig in the valley, and he will rejoice in strength: he will go forth to the meeting of the weapon. ²² He will laugh at fear, and he will not be dismayed; and he will not turn back from the face of the sword. ²³ The quiver will give forth a whizzing against him, the flame of the spear and the javelin. ²⁴ With leaping and rage he will swallow the earth; and he will not believe that it is the voice of the trumpet ²⁵ He will say according to the multitude of the trumpet, Aha! and he will smell the battle from far off, the thunder of the chiefs, and the war cry. ²⁶ From thy understanding will the hawk mount upwards? will it stretch its wings to the south? ²⁷ If at thy mouth the eagle will lift itself up, and if it will raise up its nest? ²⁸ She will dwell in the rock, and she will lodge upon the cliff of the rock and the fortress. ²⁹ From thence it sought food; far off shall its eyes behold. ³⁰ Her young shall suck up the blood: and where the wounded, there is she.