Thematic Bible
Job 38:1 (show verse)
Then Yahweh answered Job from the storm, and he said,
Job 38:2 (show verse)
"Who [is] this darkening counsel by words without knowledge?
Job 38:3 (show verse)
{Prepare yourself for a difficult task like a man}, and I will question you, and you shall declare to me.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 38:4 (show verse)
"Where were you at my laying the foundation of [the] earth? Tell [me], if you possess understanding.
Job 38:5 (show verse)
Who determined its measurement? Yes, you do know. Or who stretched [the] measuring line upon it?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 38:6 (show verse)
On what were its bases sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone,
No Themes for this verse.
Job 38:7 (show verse)
when [the] morning stars were singing together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Job 38:8 (show verse)
"Or [who] shut [the] sea in with doors at its bursting, [when] it went out of [the] womb,
Job 38:9 (show verse)
at my making [the] clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band,
Job 38:10 (show verse)
and I prescribed my rule for it, and I set bars and doors,
Job 38:11 (show verse)
and I said, 'You shall come up to here, but you shall not go further, and here it will set [a boundary] {for your proud surging waves}'?
Job 38:12 (show verse)
"Have you {ever in your life} commanded [the] morning? Have you made the dawn know its place,
Job 38:13 (show verse)
to take hold of the earth's skirts so that the wicked might be shaken off from it?
Job 38:14 (show verse)
It is changed like clay [under] a seal, and they appear like a garment.
Job 38:15 (show verse)
And their light is withheld from [the] wicked, and [their] uplifted arm is broken.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 38:16 (show verse)
"Have you entered into [the] sea's sources? Or have you walked around in [the] recesses of the deep?
Job 38:17 (show verse)
Have [the] gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen [the] gates of deep shadow?
Job 38:18 (show verse)
Have you considered closely [the] earth's vast expanse? Declare [it], if you know all of it.
Job 38:19 (show verse)
"Where then [is] the way [where] [the] light dwells? And where then [is] its place,
Job 38:20 (show verse)
that you may take it to its territory, and that you might discern the paths to its home?
Job 38:21 (show verse)
You know, for you were born then, and the number of your days [is] great.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 38:22 (show verse)
Have you entered into [the] storehouses of [the] snow, or have you seen [the] storehouses of [the] hail,
Job 38:23 (show verse)
which I have reserved for [the] time of trouble, for [the] day of battle and war?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 38:24 (show verse)
Where then [is] the way [where] [the] light is distributed, [where] he scatters [the] east wind upon [the] earth?
Job 38:25 (show verse)
"Who has cut open a channel for the torrents and a way for [the] {thunder bolts},
No Themes for this verse.
Job 38:26 (show verse)
to bring rain on a land {where no one lives}, a desert {where no humans live},
Job 38:27 (show verse)
to satisfy desert and wasteland, and to cause [the ground] to put forth [the] rising of grass?
Job 38:28 (show verse)
Is there a father for the rain, or who fathered [the] drops of dew?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 38:29 (show verse)
From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who fathered [the] frost of heaven?
Job 38:30 (show verse)
Like stone [the] waters become hard, and [the] faces of the deep freeze.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 38:31 (show verse)
"Can you bind [the] chains of [the] Pleiades, or can you loosen [the] cords of Orion?
Job 38:32 (show verse)
Can you lead forth the southern constellations at their appointed time, or can you lead [the] Bear with its children?
Job 38:33 (show verse)
Do you know heaven's statutes, or can you establish their rule on the earth?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 38:34 (show verse)
Can you lift up your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water may cover you?
Job 38:35 (show verse)
Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go? And will they say to you, 'Here we are'?
Job 38:36 (show verse)
Who has put wisdom in the ibis, or who has given understanding to the rooster?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 38:37 (show verse)
Who can number [the] clouds with wisdom? Or who can tilt heaven's jars,
Job 38:38 (show verse)
at [the] flowing of [the] dust into a cast and [the] clods cling together?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 38:39 (show verse)
"Can you hunt prey for [the] lion? And can you satisfy [the] hunger of strong lions
Job 38:40 (show verse)
when they are crouched in the dens, [when] they lie in the thicket in an ambush?
Job 38:41 (show verse)
Who prepares for the crow its prey, when its young ones cry to God for help, [and] they wander around {for lack of food}?