Thematic Bible

Job 38:1

Then the Lord answered Job from the whirlwind. He said:

Job 38:2

Who is this who obscures My counsel
with ignorant words?

Job 38:3

Get ready to answer Me like a man;
when I question you, you will inform Me.
No Themes for this verse.

Job 38:4

Where were you when I established the earth?
Tell Me, if you have understanding.

Job 38:5

Who fixed its dimensions? Certainly you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
No Themes for this verse.

Job 38:6

What supports its foundations?
Or who laid its cornerstone
No Themes for this verse.

Job 38:7

while the morning stars sang together
and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Job 38:8

Who enclosed the sea behind doors
when it burst from the womb,

Job 38:9

when I made the clouds its garment
and thick darkness its blanket,

Job 38:10

when I determined its boundaries
and put its bars and doors in place,

Job 38:11

when I declared: “You may come this far, but no farther;
your proud waves stop here”?

Job 38:12

Have you ever in your life commanded the morning
or assigned the dawn its place,

Job 38:13

so it may seize the edges of the earth
and shake the wicked out of it?

Job 38:14

The earth is changed as clay is by a seal;
its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.

Job 38:15

Light is withheld from the wicked,
and the arm raised in violence is broken.
No Themes for this verse.

Job 38:16

Have you traveled to the sources of the sea
or walked in the depths of the oceans?

Job 38:17

Have the gates of death been revealed to you?
Have you seen the gates of deep darkness?

Job 38:18

Have you comprehended the extent of the earth?
Tell Me, if you know all this.

Job 38:19

Where is the road to the home of light?
Do you know where darkness lives,

Job 38:20

so you can lead it back to its border?
Are you familiar with the paths to its home?

Job 38:21

Don’t you know? You were already born;
you have lived so long!
No Themes for this verse.

Job 38:22

Have you entered the place where the snow is stored?
Or have you seen the storehouses of hail,

Job 38:23

which I hold in reserve for times of trouble,
for the day of warfare and battle?
No Themes for this verse.

Job 38:24

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

Job 38:25

Who cuts a channel for the flooding rain
or clears the way for lightning,
No Themes for this verse.

Job 38:26

to bring rain on an uninhabited land,
on a desert with no human life,

Job 38:27

to satisfy the parched wasteland
and cause the grass to sprout?

Job 38:28

Does the rain have a father?
Who fathered the drops of dew?
No Themes for this verse.

Job 38:29

Whose womb did the ice come from?
Who gave birth to the frost of heaven

Job 38:30

when water becomes as hard as stone,
and the surface of the watery depths is frozen?
No Themes for this verse.

Job 38:31

Can you fasten the chains of the Pleiades
or loosen the belt of Orion?

Job 38:32

Can you bring out the constellations in their season
and lead the Bear and her cubs?

Job 38:33

Do you know the laws of heaven?
Can you impose its authority on earth?
No Themes for this verse.

Job 38:34

Can you command the clouds
so that a flood of water covers you?

Job 38:35

Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go?
Do they report to you: “Here we are”?

Job 38:36

Who put wisdom in the heart
or gave the mind understanding?
No Themes for this verse.

Job 38:37

Who has the wisdom to number the clouds?
Or who can tilt the water jars of heaven

Job 38:38

when the dust hardens like cast metal
and the clods of dirt stick together?
No Themes for this verse.

Job 38:39

Can you hunt prey for a lioness
or satisfy the appetite of young lions

Job 38:40

when they crouch in their dens
and lie in wait within their lairs?

Job 38:41

Who provides the raven’s food
when its young cry out to God
and wander about for lack of food?


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