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1. 1 Then the Lord responded to Job out of a violent storm. He said:

   2 Who is this who spreads darkness over my plans
   with his ignorant words?
   3 Get ready for action[a] like a man!
   Then I will ask you questions,
   and you will inform me.
   4 Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?
   Tell me, if you understand anything about it.
   5 Who determined its dimensions?
   I am sure you know.
   Who stretched out the surveying line over it?
   6 What supports its foundation?
   Who set its cornerstone in place,
   7 when the morning stars sang loud songs together,
   and all the sons of God shouted for joy?[b]
   8 Who locked up the sea behind doors
   when it burst out of the womb?
   9 When I clothed the sea with clouds,
   when I wrapped it with thick darkness as its swaddling cloths,
   10 when I broke its power with my decree,
   when I locked it up behind barred, double doors,
   11 I said, “You may come this far, but no farther.
   Here is the barrier for your proud waves.”
   12 Have you ever in all your days given a command to the morning?
   Have you ever set a time for the sun to rise,
   13 so it may grab the earth by its edges
   and shake the wicked out of it?
   14 The earth’s shapes become visible like designs impressed on clay,
   and its decorations can be seen like those on a garment.
   15 Their light is withheld from the wicked,
   and an uplifted arm is broken.
   16 Have you ever traveled to the sources of the sea
   or walked around in the dark depths of the ocean?
   17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you?
   Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?[c]
   18 Do you comprehend the vast expanses of the earth?
   Tell me, if you know all this.
   19 How can someone get to the dwelling of light?
   Where is the place for darkness?
   20 Could you lead it to its property?
   Do you know the way to its house?
   21 You must know that, since you were born before it,
   and you have lived for so many days!
   22 Have you visited the warehouses where the snow is kept?
   Have you seen the warehouses[d] where the hail is stored?
   23 I have reserved them for troubled times,
   for days of battle and war.
   24 What is the way to the place where the lightning divides,[e]
   where the east wind is scattered over the earth?
   25 Who has excavated a channel for the floodwaters
   and a road for the rolling thunder?
   26 They bring rain to lands where no one lives,
   to a wilderness without a person in it.
   27 The rain satisfies the wilderness and wasteland
   and causes the dry ground to produce green plants.
   28 Does the rain have a father?
   Who is the father of the drops of dew? – Job 38:1-28 (EHV)

   Footnotes:

   [a] Job 38:3 Or hitch up your robes with a belt
   [b] Job 38:7 It is not certain whether the terms morning stars and sons of God refer to stars, angels, or both.
   [c] Job 38:17 The scribes of the Hebrew text consistently spell this word as shadow of death. Many recent translations alter the spelling to a very similar word that means deep darkness. The EHV in many cases retains the traditional reading.
   [d] Job 38:22 Or armories
   [e] Job 38:24 Or light is distributed

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