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[1] And after Elius had ceased from speaking, the Lord spoke to Job through the whirlwind and clouds, saying,
[2] Who is this that hides counsel from me, and confines words in his heart, and thinks to conceal them from me?
[3] Gird thy loins like a man; and I will ask thee, and do thou answer me.
[4] Where wast thou when I founded the earth? tell me now, if thou hast knowledge,
[5] who set the measures of it, if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it?
[6] On what are its rings fastened? and who is he that laid the corner-stone upon it?
[7] When the stars were made, all my angels praised me with a loud voice.
[8] And I shut up the sea with gates, when it rushed out, coming forth out its mother's womb.
[9] And I made a cloud its clothing, and swathed it in mist.
[10] And I set bounds to it, surrounding it with bars and gates.
[11] And I said to it, Hitherto shalt thou come, but thou shalt not go beyond, but thy waves shall be confined within thee.
[12] Or did I order the morning light in thy time; and did the morning star then first see his appointed place;
[13] to lay hold of the extremities of the earth, to cast out the ungodly out of it?
[14] Or didst thou take clay of the ground, and form a living creature, and set it with the power of speech upon the earth?
[15] And hast thou removed light from the ungodly, and crushed the arm of the proud?
[16] Or hast thou gone to the source of the sea, and walked in the tracks of the deep?
[17] And do the gates of death open to thee for fear; and did the porters of hell quake when they saw thee?
[18] And hast thou been instructed in the breadth of the whole earth under heaven? tell me now, what is the extent of it?
[19] And in what kind of a land does the light dwell? and of what kind is the place of darkness?
[20] If thou couldest bring me to their utmost boundaries, and if also thou knowest their paths;
[21] I know then that thou wert born at that time, and the number of thy years is great.
[22] But hast thou gone to the treasures of snow? and hast thou seen the treasures of hail?
[23] And is there a store of them, for thee against the time of thine enemies, for the day of wars and battle?
[24] And whence proceeds the frost? or whence is the south wind dispersed over the whole world under heaven?
[25] And who prepared a course for the violent rain, and a way for the thunders;
[26] to rain upon the land where there is no man, the wilderness, where there is not a man in it; so as to feed the untrodden and uninhabited land,
[27] and cause it to send forth a crop of green herbs?
[28] Who is the rain's father? and who has generated the drops of dew?
[29] And out of whose womb comes the ice? and who has produced the frost in the sky,
[30] which descends like flowing water? who has terrified the face of the ungodly?
[31] And dost thou understand the band of Pleias, and hast thou opened the barrier of Orion?
[32] Or wilt thou reveal Mazuroth in his season, and the evening star with his rays? Wilt thou guide them?
[33] And knowest thou the changes of heaven, or the events which take place together under heaven?
[34] And wilt thou call a cloud with thy voice, and will it obey thee with a violent shower of much rain?
[35] And wilt thou send lightnings, and they shall go? and shall they say to thee, What is thy pleasure?
[36] And who has given to women skill in weaving, or knowledge of embroidery?
[37] And who is he that numbers the clouds in wisdom, and has bowed the heaven down to the earth?
[38] For it is spread out as dusty earth, and I have cemented it as one hewn stone to another.
[39] And wilt thou hunt a prey for the lions? and satisfy the desires of the serpents?
[40] For they fear in their lairs, and lying in wait couch in the woods.
[41] And who has prepared food for the raven? for its young ones wander and cry to the Lord, in search of food.
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