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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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