Thematic Bible
Job 38:1 (show verse)
Then Yahweh responded to Job, out of a storm, and said: -
Job 38:2 (show verse)
Who is it that darkeneth counsel, by words, without knowledge?
Job 38:3 (show verse)
Gird, I pray thee - like a strong man - thy loins, that I may ask thee, and inform thou me:
No Themes for this verse.
Job 38:4 (show verse)
Where wast thou, when I founded the earth? Tell, if thou knowest understanding!
Job 38:5 (show verse)
Who set the measurements thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched out over it a line?
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Job 38:6 (show verse)
Whereon were the pedestals thereof sunk? Or who laid the corner stone thereof; -
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Job 38:7 (show verse)
When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Job 38:8 (show verse)
Or who shut in, with double doors, the sea, when, bursting out of the womb, it came forth;
Job 38:9 (show verse)
When I put a cloud as the garment thereof, and a thick cloud as the swaddling-band thereof;
Job 38:10 (show verse)
And brake off for it my boundary, and fixed a bar and double doors;
Job 38:11 (show verse)
And said - Hitherto, shalt thou come, and no further, - and, here, shalt thou set a limit to the majesty of thy waves?
Job 38:12 (show verse)
Since thy days began hast thou commanded the morning? or caused the dawn to know its place;
Job 38:13 (show verse)
That it might lay hold of the wings of the earth, and the lawless be shaken out of it?
Job 38:14 (show verse)
It transformeth itself like the clay of a seal, so that things stand forth like one arrayed;
Job 38:15 (show verse)
That their light may be withdrawn from the lawless, and, the lofty arm, be shivered.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 38:16 (show verse)
Hast thou entered as far as the springs of the sea? Or, through the secret recesses of the resounding deep, hast thou wandered?
Job 38:17 (show verse)
Have the gates of death been disclosed to thee? And, the gates of the death-shade, couldst thou descry?
Job 38:18 (show verse)
Hast thou well considered, even the breadths of the earth? Tell - if thou knowest it all!
Job 38:19 (show verse)
Where then is the way, the light shall abide? And, the darkness, where then is its place?
Job 38:20 (show verse)
That thou mayest conduct it unto the bound thereof, and that thou mayest perceive the paths to its house.
Job 38:21 (show verse)
Thou knowest, for, then, hadst thou been born! And, in number, thy days are many!
No Themes for this verse.
Job 38:22 (show verse)
Hast thou entered into the treasuries of the snow? And, the treasuries of the hail, couldst thou see?
Job 38:23 (show verse)
Which I have reserved for a time of distress, for the day of conflict and of war?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 38:24 (show verse)
Where then is the way the lightning is parted? The east wind spreadeth itself abroad over the earth.
Job 38:25 (show verse)
Who hath cloven - for the torrent - a channel? Or a way for the lightning of thunders;
No Themes for this verse.
Job 38:26 (show verse)
To give rain over the no-man's land, the desert, where no son of earth is;
Job 38:27 (show verse)
To satisfy the wild and the wilderness, to cause to spring forth the meadow of young grass?
Job 38:28 (show verse)
Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 38:29 (show verse)
Out of whose womb, came forth the ice? And, the hoar-frost of the heavens, who hath given it birth?
Job 38:30 (show verse)
Like a stone, are the waters congealed, and, the face of the roaring deep, becometh firm!
No Themes for this verse.
Job 38:31 (show verse)
Canst thou bind the fetters of the Pleiades? Or, the bands of Orion, canst thou unloose?
Job 38:32 (show verse)
Canst thou bring forth the signs of the Zodiac each in its season? Or, the Bear and her Young, canst thou lead?
Job 38:33 (show verse)
Knowest thou, the statutes of the heavens? Or didst thou appoint his dominion over the earth?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 38:34 (show verse)
Canst thou lift up, to the thick cloud, thy voice, and the overflow of waters cover thee?
Job 38:35 (show verse)
Canst thou send forth the lightnings, so that they go, and say to thee, Behold us?
Job 38:36 (show verse)
Who hath put - into cloud-forms - wisdom? Or who hath given - to the meteor - understanding?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 38:37 (show verse)
Who can count the thin clouds, in wisdom? And, the bottles of the heavens, who can empty out;
Job 38:38 (show verse)
When the dust is cast into a clod, and the lumps are bound together?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 38:39 (show verse)
Wilt thou hunt - for the Lioness - prey? Or, the craving of the Strong Lion, wilt thou satisfy;
Job 38:40 (show verse)
When they settle down in dens, abide in covert, for lying in wait?
Job 38:41 (show verse)
Who prepareth for the Raven his nourishment, - when his young ones - unto GOD - cry out, when they wander for lack of food?