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Job 38
Septuagint (LXX2012) 38 compared with World English Bible 38
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1And after Elius had ceased from speaking, the Lord spoke to Job through the whirlwind and clouds, [saying],
1Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,
2Who is this that hides counsel from me, and confines words in [his] heart, and thinks to conceal [them] from me?
2“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
3Gird your loins like a man; and I will ask you, and do you answer me.
3Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me!
4Where were you when I founded the earth? tell me now, if you have knowledge,
4“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.
5who set the measures of it, if you know? or who stretched a line upon it?
5Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?
6On what are its rings fastened ? and who is he that laid the corner-stone upon it?
6What were its foundations fastened on? Or who laid its cornerstone,
7When the stars were made, all my angels praised me with a loud voice.
7when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8And I shut up the sea with gates, when it rushed out, coming forth out its mother's womb.
8“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,
9And I made a cloud its clothing, and swathed it in mist.
9when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,
10And I set bounds to it , surrounding it with bars and gates.
10marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,
11And I said to it, Hitherto shall you come , but you shall not go beyond, but your waves shall be confined within you.
11and said, ‘You may come here, but no further. Your proud waves shall be stopped here’?
12Or did I order the morning light in your time; and [did] the morning star [then first] see his appointed place;
12“Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place,
13to lay hold of the extremities of the earth, to cast out the ungodly out of it?
13that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?
14Or did you take clay of the ground, and form a living creature, and set it with the power of speech upon the earth?
14It is changed as clay under the seal, and presented as a garment.
15And have you removed light from the ungodly, and crushed the arm of the proud?
15From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.
16Or have you gone to the source of the sea, and walked in the tracks of the deep?
16“Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
17And do the gates of death open to you for fear; and did the porters of hell quake when they saw you?
17Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
18And have you been instructed in the breadth of the [whole earth] under heaven? tell me now, what is the extent of it?
18Have you comprehended the earth in its width? Declare, if you know it all.
19And in what kind of a land does the light dwell? and of what kind is the place of darkness?
19“What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,
20If you could bring me to their [utmost] boundaries, and if also you know their paths;
20that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?
21I know then that you were born at that time, and the number of your years is great.
21Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!
22But have you gone to the treasures of snow? and have you seen the treasures of hail?
22Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
23And is there a store [of them], for you against the time of [your] enemies, for the day of wars and battle ?
23which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?