Thematic Bible
Job 38:1 (show verse)
Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind:
Job 38:2 (show verse)
"Who is this who darkens counsel with words without knowledge?
Job 38:3 (show verse)
Get ready for a difficult task like a man; I will question you and you will inform me!
No Themes for this verse.
Job 38:4 (show verse)
"Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you possess understanding!
Job 38:5 (show verse)
Who set its measurements -- if you know -- or who stretched a measuring line across it?
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Job 38:6 (show verse)
On what were its bases set, or who laid its cornerstone --
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Job 38:7 (show verse)
when the morning stars sang in chorus, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Job 38:8 (show verse)
"Who shut up the sea with doors when it burst forth, coming out of the womb,
Job 38:9 (show verse)
when I made the storm clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band,
Job 38:10 (show verse)
when I prescribed its limits, and set in place its bolts and doors,
Job 38:11 (show verse)
when I said, 'To here you may come and no farther, here your proud waves will be confined'?
Job 38:12 (show verse)
Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, or made the dawn know its place,
Job 38:13 (show verse)
that it might seize the corners of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?
Job 38:14 (show verse)
The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features are dyed like a garment.
Job 38:15 (show verse)
Then from the wicked the light is withheld, and the arm raised in violence is broken.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 38:16 (show verse)
Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea, or walked about in the recesses of the deep?
Job 38:17 (show verse)
Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of deepest darkness?
Job 38:18 (show verse)
Have you considered the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know it all!
Job 38:19 (show verse)
"In what direction does light reside, and darkness, where is its place,
Job 38:20 (show verse)
that you may take them to their borders and perceive the pathways to their homes?
Job 38:21 (show verse)
You know, for you were born before them; and the number of your days is great!
No Themes for this verse.
Job 38:22 (show verse)
Have you entered the storehouse of the snow, or seen the armory of the hail,
Job 38:23 (show verse)
which I reserve for the time of trouble, for the day of war and battle?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 38:24 (show verse)
In what direction is lightning dispersed, or the east winds scattered over the earth?
Job 38:25 (show verse)
Who carves out a channel for the heavy rains, and a path for the rumble of thunder,
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Job 38:26 (show verse)
to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a desert where there are no human beings,
Job 38:27 (show verse)
to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and to cause it to sprout with vegetation?
Job 38:28 (show verse)
Does the rain have a father, or who has fathered the drops of the dew?
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Job 38:29 (show verse)
From whose womb does the ice emerge, and the frost from the sky, who gives birth to it,
Job 38:30 (show verse)
when the waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen solid?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 38:31 (show verse)
Can you tie the bands of the Pleiades, or release the cords of Orion?
Job 38:32 (show verse)
Can you lead out the constellations in their seasons, or guide the Bear with its cubs?
Job 38:33 (show verse)
Do you know the laws of the heavens, or can you set up their rule over the earth?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 38:34 (show verse)
Can you raise your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?
Job 38:35 (show verse)
Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go? Will they say to you, 'Here we are'?
Job 38:36 (show verse)
Who has put wisdom in the heart, or has imparted understanding to the mind?
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Job 38:37 (show verse)
Who by wisdom can count the clouds, and who can tip over the water jars of heaven,
Job 38:38 (show verse)
when the dust hardens into a mass, and the clumps of earth stick together?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 38:39 (show verse)
"Do you hunt prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite of the lions,
Job 38:40 (show verse)
when they crouch in their dens, when they wait in ambush in the thicket?
Job 38:41 (show verse)
Who prepares prey for the raven, when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?