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¹ From out of a storm,
    the Lord said to Job:
² Why do you talk so much
    when you know so little?
³ Now get ready to face me!
Can you answer
    the questions I ask?
⁴ How did I lay the foundation
for the earth?
    Were you there?
⁵ Doubtless you know who decided
    its length and width.
⁶ What supports the foundation?
Who placed the cornerstone,
⁷     while morning stars sang,
    and angels rejoiced?

⁸ When the ocean was born,
    I set its boundaries
⁹ and wrapped it in blankets
    of thickest fog.
¹⁰ Then I built a wall around it,
    locked the gates, ¹¹ and said,
"Your powerful waves stop here!
    They can go no farther."

¹² Did you ever tell the sun to rise?
    And did it obey?
¹³ Did it take hold of the earth
and shake out the wicked
    like dust from a rug?
¹⁴ Early dawn outlines the hills
like stitches on clothing
    or sketches on clay.
¹⁵ But its light is too much
for those who are evil,
    and their power is broken.

¹⁶ Job, have you ever walked
    on the ocean floor?
¹⁷ Have you seen the gate
    to the world of the dead?
¹⁸ And how large is the earth?
    Tell me, if you know!

¹⁹ Where is the home of light,
and where does darkness live?
²⁰     Can you lead them home?
²¹ I'm certain you must be able to,
since you were already born
    when I created everything.

²² Have you been to the places
    where I keep snow and hail,
²³ until I use them to punish
    and conquer nations?
²⁴ From where does lightning leap,
    or the east wind blow?
²⁵ Who carves out a path
    for thunderstorms?
Who sends torrents of rain
²⁶ on empty deserts
    where no one lives?
²⁷ Rain that changes barren land
    to meadows green with grass.
²⁸ Who is the father of the dew
    and of the rain?
²⁹ Who gives birth to the sleet
    and the frost
³⁰ that fall in winter,
when streams and lakes
    freeze solid as a rock?

³¹ Can you arrange stars in groups
such as Orion
    and the Pleiades?
³² Do you control the stars
or set in place the Big Dipper
    and the Little Dipper?
³³ Do you know the laws
    that govern the heavens,
and can you make them rule
    the earth?
³⁴ Can you order the clouds
    to send a downpour,
³⁵ or will lightning flash
    at your command?
³⁶ Did you teach birds to know
that rain or floods
    are on their way?^[a]
37 Can you count the clouds
or pour out their water
³⁸     on the dry, lumpy soil?

³⁹ When lions are hungry,
    do you help them hunt?
⁴⁰ Do you send an animal
    into their den?
⁴¹ And when starving young ravens
cry out to me for food,
    do you satisfy their hunger?