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- THEN THE Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said,
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- Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? [Job 35:16.]
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- Gird up now your loins like a man, and I will demand of you, and you declare to Me.
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- Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Declare to Me, if you have and know understanding.
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- Who determined the measures of the earth, if you know? Or who stretched the measuring line upon it?
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- Upon what were the foundations of it fastened, or who laid its cornerstone,
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- When the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
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- Or who shut up the sea with doors when it broke forth and issued out of the womb?--
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- When I made the clouds the garment of it, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it,
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- And marked for it My appointed boundary and set bars and doors, [Jer. 5:22.]
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- And said, Thus far shall you come and no farther; and here shall your proud waves be stayed? [Ps. 89:9; 93:4.]
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- Have you commanded the morning since your days began and caused the dawn to know its place,
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- So that [light] may get hold of the corners of the earth and shake the wickedness [of night] out of it?
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- It is changed like clay into which a seal is pressed; and things stand out like a many-colored garment.
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- From the wicked their light is withheld, and their uplifted arm is broken.
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- Have you explored the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
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- Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the doors of deep darkness?
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- Have you comprehended the breadth of the earth? Tell Me, if you know it all.
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- Where is the way where light dwells? And as for darkness, where is its abode,
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- That you may conduct it to its home, and may know the paths to its house?
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- You must know, since you were born then! Or because you are so extremely old!
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- Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, or have you seen the treasuries of the hail,
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- Which I have reserved for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war? [Exod. 9:18; Josh. 10:11; Isa. 30:30; Rev. 16:21.]
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- By what way is the light distributed, or the east wind spread over the earth?
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- Who has prepared a channel for the torrents of rain, or a path for the thunderbolt,
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- To cause it to rain on the uninhabited land [and] on the desert where no man lives,
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- To satisfy the waste and desolate ground and to cause the tender grass to spring forth?
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- Has the rain a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?
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- Out of whose womb came the ice? And the hoary frost of heaven, who has given it birth?
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- The waters are congealed like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
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- Can you bind the chains of [the cluster of stars called] Pleiades, or loose the cords of [the constellation] Orion?
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- Can you lead forth the signs of the zodiac in their season? Or can you guide [the stars of] the Bear with her young?
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- Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish their rule upon the earth?
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- Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, so that an abundance of waters may cover you?
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- Can you send lightnings, that they may go and say to you, Here we are?
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- Who has put wisdom in the inward parts [or in the dark clouds]? Or who has given understanding to the mind [or to the meteor]?
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- Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the [water] bottles of the heavens
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- When [heat has caused] the dust to run into a mass and the clods to cleave fast together?
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- Can you [Job] hunt the prey for the lion? Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions
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- When they couch in their dens or lie in wait in their hiding place?
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- Who provides for the raven its prey when its young ones cry to God and wander about for lack of food?
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