Job 38:4-39:30 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if you have understanding.

KJ2000⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁴ Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if you have understanding. ⁵ Who has determined the measures thereof, if you know? or who has stretched the line upon it? ⁶ On what are its foundations fastened? or who laid its cornerstone; ⁷ When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? ⁸ Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? ⁹ When I made the clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band, ¹⁰ And prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors, ¹¹ And said, Thus far shall you come, but no farther: and here shall your proud waves be stopped? ¹² Have you commanded the morning since your days began; and caused the dawn to know its place; ¹³ That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it? ¹⁴ It is turned as clay under the seal; and they stand out as a garment. ¹⁵ And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the uplifted arm shall be broken. ¹⁶ Have you entered into the springs of the sea? or have you walked in search of the depths? ¹⁷ Have the gates of death been revealed unto you? or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death? ¹⁸ Have you perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if you know it all. ¹⁹ Where is the way where light dwells? and as for darkness, where is its place, ²⁰ That you should take it to its domain, and that you should know the paths to its home? ²¹ Do you know it, because you were born then? or because the number of your days is great? ²² Have you entered into the treasury of the snow? or have you seen the treasury of the hail, ²³ Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war? ²⁴ By what way is the light distributed, which scatters the east wind upon the earth? ²⁵ Who has divided a channel for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder; ²⁶ To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, in which there is no man; ²⁷ To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender grass to spring forth? ²⁸ Has the rain a father? or who has begotten the drops of dew? ²⁹ Out of whose womb came the ice? and the frost from heaven, who has given it birth? ³⁰ The waters harden like a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen. ³¹ Can you bind the cluster of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? ³² Can you bring forth Mazzaroth in its season? or can you guide Arcturus with its children? ³³ Know you the ordinances of heaven? can you set their dominion in the earth? ³⁴ Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you? ³⁵ Can you send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto you, Here we are? ³⁶ Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? or who has given understanding to the heart? ³⁷ Who can number the clouds by wisdom? or who can pour out the water skins of heaven, ³⁸ When the dust grows into clumps, and the clods cleave fast together? ³⁹ Will you hunt the prey for the lion? or satisfy the appetite of the young lions, ⁴⁰ When they crouch in their dens, and abide in their lairs to lie in wait? ⁴¹ Who provides for the raven its food? when its young ones cry unto God, they wander about for lack of food. ³⁹ ¹ Know you the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or can you mark when the hinds do calve? ² Can you number the months that they fulfill? or know you the time when they bring forth? ³ They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their offspring. ⁴ Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open; they go forth, and return not unto them. ⁵ Who has let the wild donkey go free? or who has loosed the bonds of the wild donkey? ⁶ Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. ⁷ He scorns the multitude of the city, neither regards he the shouts of the driver. ⁸ The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searches after every green thing. ⁹ Will the wild ox be willing to serve you, or abide by your crib? ¹⁰ Can you bind the wild ox with ropes in the furrow? or will he plow the valleys behind you? ¹¹ Will you trust him, because his strength is great? or will you leave your labor to him? ¹² Will you believe him, that he will bring home your grain, and gather it into your barn? ¹³ Gave you the proud wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? ¹⁴ Which leaves her eggs in the earth, and warms them in dust, ¹⁵ And forgets that the foot may crush them, or that a wild beast may break them. ¹⁶ She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labor is in vain without concern; ¹⁷ Because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding. ¹⁸ When she lifts up herself high, she scorns the horse and his rider. ¹⁹ Have you given the horse strength? have you clothed his neck with thunder? ²⁰ Can you make him afraid like a grasshopper? the majesty of his snorting is terrible. ²¹ He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength: he goes out to meet the armed men. ²² He mocks at fear, and is not frightened; neither turns he back from the sword. ²³ The quiver rattles against him, the glittering spear and the javelin. ²⁴ He swallows the ground with fierceness and rage: neither does he halt at the sound of the trumpet. ²⁵ He says among the trumpets, Aha; and he smells the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting. ²⁶ Does the hawk fly by your wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south? ²⁷ Does the eagle mount up at your command, and make her nest on high? ²⁸ She dwells and abides on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the stronghold. ²⁹ From there she seeks the prey, and her eyes behold afar off. ³⁰ Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she.