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Job 38

The LORD answers Job out of the whirlwind and immediately challenges words spoken without knowledge. Rather than explain the heavenly scenes, God questions Job about the earth’s foundations, sea, dawn, depths, light, snow, stars, weather, and the instincts and provision of creatures.

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The LORD answers Job out of the whirlwind and immediately challenges words spoken without knowledge. Rather than explain the heavenly scenes, God questions Job about the earth’s foundations, sea, dawn, depths, light, snow, stars, weather, and the instincts and provision of creatures.

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Verses 1–3The LORD answers Job out of the whirlwind and tells him to prepare to answerVerses 4–11The LORD questions Job about the earth’s foundations and the boundaries of the seaVerses 12–21The LORD asks about the morning, the depths, the earth’s breadth, light, and darknessVerses 22–30The LORD asks about snow, hail, rain, dew, ice, and frostVerses 31–38The LORD asks about the constellations, ordinances of heaven, clouds, lightning, and wisdomVerses 39–41The LORD asks who provides prey for the lion and food for the raven
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1Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and…2Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?3Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I…4Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the…5Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or…6Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the…7When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons…8Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it…9When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick…10And brake up for it my decreed place, and set…11And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and…12Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused…13That it might take hold of the ends of the…14It is turned as clay to the seal; and they…15And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the…16Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or…17Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or…18Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if…19Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for…20That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and…21Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because…22Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or…23Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against…24By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the…25Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters,…26To cause it to rain on the earth, where no…27To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause…28Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the…29Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary…30The waters are hid as with a stone, and the…31Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose…32Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst…33Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the…34Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that…35Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say…36Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who…37Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can…38When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave…39Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill…40When they couch in their dens, and abide in the…41Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young…