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| [1]And after Elius had ceased from speaking, the Lord spoke to Job through the whirlwind and clouds, saying, |
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| [2]Who is this that hides counsel from me, and confines words in his heart, and thinks to conceal them from me? |
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| [3]Gird thy loins like a man; and I will ask thee, and do thou answer me. |
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| [4]Where wast thou when I founded the earth? tell me now, if thou hast knowledge, |
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| [5]who set the measures of it, if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it? |
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| [6]On what are its rings fastened? and who is he that laid the corner-stone upon it? |
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| [7]When the stars were made, all my angels praised me with a loud voice. |
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| [8]And I shut up the sea with gates, when it rushed out, coming forth out its mother's womb. |
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| [9]And I made a cloud its clothing, and swathed it in mist. |
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| [10]And I set bounds to it, surrounding it with bars and gates. |
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| [11]And I said to it, Hitherto shalt thou come, but thou shalt not go beyond, but thy waves shall be confined within thee. |
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| [12]Or did I order the morning light in thy time; and did the morning star then first see his appointed place; |
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| [13]to lay hold of the extremities of the earth, to cast out the ungodly out of it? |
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| [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? |
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| [15]And hast thou removed light from the ungodly, and crushed the arm of the proud? |
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| [16]Or hast thou gone to the source of the sea, and walked in the tracks of the deep? |
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| [17]And do the gates of death open to thee for fear; and did the porters of hell quake when they saw thee? |
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| [18]And hast thou been instructed in the breadth of the whole earth under heaven? tell me now, what is the extent of it? |
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| [19]And in what kind of a land does the light dwell? and of what kind is the place of darkness? |
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| [20]If thou couldest bring me to their utmost boundaries, and if also thou knowest their paths; |
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| [21]I know then that thou wert born at that time, and the number of thy years is great. |
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| [22]But hast thou gone to the treasures of snow? and hast thou seen the treasures of hail? |
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| [23]And is there a store of them, for thee against the time of thine enemies, for the day of wars and battle? |
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| [24]And whence proceeds the frost? or whence is the south wind dispersed over the whole world under heaven? |
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| [25]And who prepared a course for the violent rain, and a way for the thunders; |
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| [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, |
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| [27]and cause it to send forth a crop of green herbs? |
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| [28]Who is the rain's father? and who has generated the drops of dew? |
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| [29]And out of whose womb comes the ice? and who has produced the frost in the sky, |
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| [30]which descends like flowing water? who has terrified the face of the ungodly? |
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| [31]And dost thou understand the band of Pleias, and hast thou opened the barrier of Orion? |
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| [32]Or wilt thou reveal Mazuroth in his season, and the evening star with his rays? Wilt thou guide them? |
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| [33]And knowest thou the changes of heaven, or the events which take place together under heaven? |
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| [34]And wilt thou call a cloud with thy voice, and will it obey thee with a violent shower of much rain? |
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| [35]And wilt thou send lightnings, and they shall go? and shall they say to thee, What is thy pleasure? |
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| [36]And who has given to women skill in weaving, or knowledge of embroidery? |
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| [37]And who is he that numbers the clouds in wisdom, and has bowed the heaven down to the earth? |
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| [38]For it is spread out as dusty earth, and I have cemented it as one hewn stone to another. |
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| [39]And wilt thou hunt a prey for the lions? and satisfy the desires of the serpents? |
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| [40]For they fear in their lairs, and lying in wait couch in the woods. |
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| [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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