1611 King James Bible
Job 38
- Job 38:1 Then the LORD answered Iob out of the whirlewind, and sayd,
- Job 38:2 Who is this that darkneth counsell by words without knowledge?
- Job 38:3 Gird vp nowe thy loines like a man; for I will demaund of thee, and answere thou me.
- Job 38:4 Where wast thou when I layd the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast vnderstanding.
- Job 38:5 Who hath layd the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line vpon it?
- Job 38:6 Wherepuon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who layd the corner stone thereof?
- Job 38:7 When the morning starres sang together, and all the sonnes of God shouted for ioy.
- Job 38:8 Or who shut vp the sea with doores, when it brake foorth as if it had issued out of the wombe?
- Job 38:9 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thicke darknesse a swadling band for it,
- Job 38:10 And brake vp for it my decreed place, and set barres and doores,
- Job 38:11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and heere shall thy proud waues be stayed.
- Job 38:12 Hast thou commaunded the morning since thy daies? and caused the day-spring to know his place,
- Job 38:13 That it might take hold of the endes of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
- Job 38:14 It is turned as clay to the seale, and they stand as a garment.
- Job 38:15 And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arme shalbe broken.
- Job 38:16 Hast thou entred into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?
- Job 38:17 Haue the gates of death bene opened vnto thee? or hast thou seene the doores of the shadow of death?
- Job 38:18 Hast thou perceiued the breadth of the earth? Declare if thou knowest it all.
- Job 38:19 Where is the way where light dwelleth? And as for darknesse, where is the place thereof?
- Job 38:20 That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the pathes to the house thereof.
- Job 38:21 Knowest thou it, because thou wast then borne? or because the number of thy daies is great?
- Job 38:22 Hast thou entred into the treasures of the snowe? or hast thou seene the treasures of the haile,
- Job 38:23 Which I haue reserued against the time of trouble, against the day of battaile and warre?
- Job 38:24 By what way is the light parted? which scattereth the East wind vpon the earth.
- Job 38:25 Who hath diuided a water-course for the ouerflowing of waters? or a way for the lightning of thunder,
- Job 38:26 To cause it to raine on the earth, where no man is: on the wildernesse wherein there is no man?
- Job 38:27 To satisfie the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herbe to spring forth.
- Job 38:28 Hath the raine a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
- Job 38:29 Out of whose wombe came the yce? and the hoary frost of heauen, who hath gendred it?
- Job 38:30 The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deepe is frozen.
- Job 38:31 Canst thou bind the sweete influences of Pleiades? or loose the bands of Orion?
- Job 38:32 Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season, or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sonnes?
- Job 38:33 Knowest thou the ordinances of heauen? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
- Job 38:34 Canst thou lift vp thy voice to the cloudes, that abundance of waters may couer thee?
- Job 38:35 Canst thou send lightnings, that they may goe, and say vnto thee, Here we are?
- Job 38:36 Who hath put wisedome in the inward parts? or who hath giuen vnderstanding to the heart?
- Job 38:37 Who can number the cloudes in wisedome? or who can stay the bottles of heauen,
- Job 38:38 When the dust groweeh into hardnesse, and the clods cleaue fast together?
- Job 38:39 Wilt thou hunt the pray for the lyon? or fill the appetite of the young lyons,
- Job 38:40 When they couch in their dennes, and abide in the couert to lie in waite?
- Job 38:41 Who prouideth for the rauen his foode? when his young ones cry vnto God, they wander for lacke of meate.