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¹ And YHWH answers Job out of the whirlwind and says:² "Who [is] this—darkening counsel, || By words without knowledge?³ Now gird your loins as a man, || And I ask you, and you cause Me to know.

⁴ Where were you when I founded the earth? Declare, if you have known understanding.⁵ Who placed its measures—if you know? Or who has stretched out a line on it?⁶ On what have its sockets been sunk? Or who has cast its cornerstone—⁷ In the singing together of [the] stars of morning, || When all [the] sons of God shout for joy?⁸ And He shuts up the sea with doors, || In its coming forth, it goes out from the womb.⁹ In My making a cloud its clothing, || And thick darkness its swaddling band,¹⁰ And I measure My statute over it, || And place bar and doors,¹¹ And say, To here you come, and no more, || And a command is placed || On the pride of your billows.

¹² Have you commanded morning since your days? Do you cause the dawn to know its place?¹³ To take hold on the skirts of the earth, || And the wicked are shaken out of it,¹⁴ It turns itself as clay of a seal || And they station themselves as clothed.¹⁵ And their light is withheld from the wicked, || And the arm lifted up is broken.¹⁶ Have you come to springs of the sea? And in searching the deep || Have you walked up and down?¹⁷ Were the gates of death revealed to you? And do you see the gates of death-shade?¹⁸ You have understanding, || Even to the broad places of earth! Declare—if you have known it all.¹⁹ Where [is] this—the way light dwells? And darkness, where [is] this—its place?²⁰ That you take it to its boundary, || And that you understand the paths of its house.²¹ You have known—for then you are born, || And the number of your days [are] many!²² Have you come to the treasure of snow? Indeed, do you see the treasures of hail,²³ That I have kept back for a time of distress, || For a day of conflict and battle?²⁴ Where [is] this, the way light is apportioned? It scatters an east wind over the earth.

²⁵ Who has divided a conduit for the flood? And a way for the lightning of the voices?²⁶ To cause [it] to rain on a land [with] no man, || A wilderness [with] no man in it.²⁷ To satisfy a desolate and ruined place, || And to cause to shoot up || The produce of the tender grass?²⁸ Does the rain have a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?²⁹ From whose belly came forth the ice? And the hoarfrost of the heavens, || Who has begotten it?³⁰ Waters are hidden as a stone, || And the face of the deep is captured.³¹ Do you bind the chains of the Pleiades? Or do you open the cords of Orion?³² Do you bring out the twelve signs in [their] season? And do you comfort the Great Bear over her sons?³³ Have you known the statutes of the heavens? Or do you appoint || Its dominion in the earth?³⁴ Do you lift up your voice to the cloud, || And abundance of water covers you?³⁵ Do you send out lightnings, and they go || And say to you, Behold us?³⁶ Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the covered part?³⁷ Who numbers the clouds by wisdom? And the bottles of the heavens, || Who causes to lie down,³⁸ In the hardening of dust into hardness, || And clods cleave together?³⁹ Do you hunt prey for a lion? And fulfill the desire of young lions?⁴⁰ When they bow down in dens—Abide in a thicket for a covert?⁴¹ Who prepares for a raven his provision, || When his young ones cry to God? They wander without food."