What road leads to the place where light is dispersed?
Where is the source of the east wind that spreads across the earth?

Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;

To give rain over the no-man's land, the desert, where no son of earth is;

To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?

The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

“Can you lead forth a constellation in its season,
And guide [the stars of] the Bear with her sons?

Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?

Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?

Who has put wisdom in the high clouds, or given knowledge to the lights of the north?

Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,

In the hardening of dust into hardness, And clods cleave together?

Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,

when they crouch in dens, and sit in the cover of their hiding place?

Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.

Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

Thou dost number the months they fulfil? And thou hast known the time of their bringing forth!

When they crouch, they bring forth their young ones; they get rid of their labor pains.

Their young are strong; they grow up in the open field; then they go off and don't return to them."

Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?

Whose house I have made the waste plain, and his dwellings, the land of salt:

He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.

The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.

Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store?

Can you depend on it because its strength is great?
Would you leave it to do your hard work?

Wilt thou confide in him, that he will bring home thy seed, And gather the grain of thy threshing-floor?

The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; But are they the pinions and plumage of love?

And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the beast of the field may trample them.

She dealeth hardly with her young ones, as if they were not hers: Though her labor be in vain,'she is without fear;

Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.

When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him.

Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.

“He paws in the valley and rejoices in his strength;
He goes out to meet the weapons [of armed men].

He laugheth at fear, and is not affrighted, And he turneth not back from the face of the sword.

Against him rattle doth quiver, The flame of a spear, and a halbert.

He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet.

He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

Is it, by thine understanding, that the Bird of Passage betaketh him to his pinions? spreadeth out his wings to the south?

If at thy mouth the eagle will lift itself up, and if it will raise up its nest?

She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.

From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.

Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of God, let him answer it.

Behold, I am of small account; What shall I answer thee? I lay my hand upon my mouth.

Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

Will you even make my right of no value? will you say that I am wrong in order to make clear that you are right?

Have you an arm like God? have you a voice of thunder like his?

“Adorn yourself with eminence and dignity [since you question the Almighty],
And array yourself with honor and majesty.

Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.

Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him,
And [if you are so able] tread down the wicked where they stand.

“[Crush and] hide them in the dust together;
Shut them up in the hidden place [the house of death].

Then will I also confess of thee That thine own right hand can save thee.

Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.

He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.

His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.

He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.

Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.

He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.

The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.

Behold, if a river overflow, he trembleth not; He is confident, though a Jordan swell even to his mouth.

Is it possible for Leviathan to be pulled out with a fish-hook, or for a hook to be put through the bone of his mouth?

Canst thou put a ring in the nose of him, or bore his jaw through with an awl?

Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?

If you lay your hand on it, you will remember the fight, and you will never do it again!

Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

Who ever went against me, and got the better of me? There is no one under heaven!

I will not be silent as to his parts, the story of his power, and the beauty of his structure.

Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?

Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.

The rows of his shields are a pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

They take a grip of one another; they are joined together, so that they may not be parted.

By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.

Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.

His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.

The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.

His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.

When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.

The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.

He will reckon iron for straw, and brass for wood of rottenness

The son of the bow doth not cause him to flee, Turned by him into stubble are stones of the sling.

Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.

Under him are sharp points of clay, He spreadeth gold on the mire.

He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.

It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had a head of white hair.

He has no equal on earth—
a creature devoid of fear!

He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.

I know that thou canst do all things, And that no purpose of thine can be restrained.

Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.

Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.

And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.

Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.

And they go -- Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, Zophar the Naamathite -- and do as Jehovah hath spoken unto them; and Jehovah doth accept the face of Job.

And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.

So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.

And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.