Job 38 (Holman Christian Standard Bible)Then the Lord answered Job from the whirlwind. He said:
2 Who is this who obscures My counsel
with ignorant words?
3 Get ready to answer Me like a man;
when I question you, you will inform Me.
4 Where were you when I established the earth?
Tell Me, if you have understanding.
5 Who fixed its dimensions? Certainly you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
6 What supports its foundations?
Or who laid its cornerstone
7 while the morning stars sang together
and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8 Who enclosed the sea behind doors
when it burst from the womb,
9 when I made the clouds its garment
and thick darkness its blanket,
10 when I determined its boundaries
and put its bars and doors in place,
11 when I declared: “You may come this far, but no farther;
your proud waves stop here”?
12 Have you ever in your life commanded the morning
or assigned the dawn its place,
13 so it may seize the edges of the earth
and shake the wicked out of it?
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18 Have you comprehended the extent of the earth?
Tell Me, if you know all this.
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28 Does the rain have a father?
Who fathered the drops of dew?
29 Whose womb did the ice come from?
Who gave birth to the frost of heaven
30 when water becomes as hard as stone,
and the surface of the watery depths is frozen?
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34 Can you command the clouds
so that a flood of water covers you?
35 Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go?
Do they report to you: “Here we are”?
36 Who put wisdom in the heart
or gave the mind understanding?
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Job 39
10 Can you hold the wild to a furrow by its harness?
Will it plow the valleys behind you?
11 Can you depend on it because its strength is great?
Would you leave it to do your hard work?
Job 39
The Lord answered Job:
2 Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct Him?
Let him who argues with God give an answer.
3 Then Job answered the Lord:
4 I am so insignificant. How can I answer You?
I place my hand over my mouth.
5 I have spoken once, and I will not reply;
twice, but now I can add nothing.
6 Then the Lord answered Job from the whirlwind:
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9 Do you have an arm like God’s?
Can you thunder with a voice like His?
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11 Who confronted Me, that I should repay him?
Everything under heaven belongs to Me.
Job 42
Then Job replied to the Lord:
2 I know that You can do anything
and no plan of Yours can be thwarted.
As I sit here, I feel convicted. You can do anything, for You alone are God. No plan of Yours can be thwarted. You will provide.
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