Job 38-39 (Young's Literal Translation)

Job 38

 ¹And Jehovah answereth Job out of the whirlwind, and saith: --

 ²Who [is] this -- darkening counsel, By words without knowledge?

 ³Gird, I pray thee, as a man, thy loins, And I ask thee, and cause thou Me to know.

 ⁴Where wast thou when I founded earth? Declare, if thou hast known understanding.

 ⁵Who placed its measures -- if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched out upon it a line?

 ⁶On what have its sockets been sunk? Or who hath cast its corner-stone?

 ⁷In the singing together of stars of morning, And all sons of God shout for joy,

 ⁸And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out.

 ⁹In My making a cloud its clothing, And thick darkness its swaddling band,

 ¹⁰And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors,

 ¹¹And say, `Hitherto come thou, and add not, And a command is placed On the pride of thy billows.'

 ¹²Hast thou commanded morning since thy days? Causest thou the dawn to know its place?

 ¹³To take hold on the skirts of the earth, And the wicked are shaken out of it,

 ¹⁴It turneth itself as clay of a seal And they station themselves as clothed.

 ¹⁵And withheld from the wicked is their light, And the arm lifted up is broken.

 ¹⁶Hast thou come in to springs of the sea? And in searching the deep Hast thou walked up and down?

 ¹⁷Revealed to thee were the gates of death? And the gates of death-shade dost thou see?

 ¹⁸Thou hast understanding, Even unto the broad places of earth! Declare -- if thou hast known it all.

 ¹⁹Where [is] this -- the way light dwelleth? And darkness, where [is] this -- its place?

 ²⁰That thou dost take it unto its boundary, And that thou dost understand The paths of its house.

 ²¹Thou hast known -- for then thou art born And the number of thy days [are] many!

 ²²Hast thou come in unto the treasure of snow? Yea, the treasures of hail dost thou see?

 ²³That I have kept back for a time of distress, For a day of conflict and battle.

 ²⁴Where [is] this, the way light is apportioned? It scattereth an east wind over the earth.

 ²⁵Who hath divided for the flood a conduit? And a way for the lightning of the voices?

 ²⁶To cause [it] to rain on a land -- no man, A wilderness -- no man in it.

 ²⁷To satisfy a desolate and waste place, And to cause to shoot up The produce of the tender grass?

 ²⁸Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

 ²⁹From whose belly came forth the ice? And the hoar-frost of the heavens, Who hath begotten it?

 ³⁰As a stone waters are hidden, And the face of the deep is captured.

 ³¹Dost thou bind sweet influences of Kimah? Or the attractions of Kesil dost thou open?

 ³²Dost thou bring out Mazzaroth in its season? And Aysh for her sons dost thou comfort?

 ³³Hast thou known the statutes of heaven? Or dost thou appoint Its dominion in the earth?

 ³⁴Dost thou lift up to the cloud thy voice, And abundance of water doth cover thee?

 ³⁵Dost thou send out lightnings, and they go And say unto thee, `Behold us?'

 ³⁶Who hath put in the inward parts wisdom? Or who hath given To the covered part understanding?

 ³⁷Who doth number the clouds by wisdom? And the bottles of the heavens, Who doth cause to lie down,

 ³⁸In the hardening of dust into hardness, And clods cleave together?

 ³⁹Dost thou hunt for a lion prey? And the desire of young lions fulfil?

 ⁴⁰When they bow down in dens -- Abide in a thicket for a covert?

 ⁴¹Who doth prepare for a raven his provision, When his young ones cry unto God? They wander without food.

Job 39

 ¹Hast thou known the time of The bearing of the wild goats of the rock? The bringing forth of hinds thou dost mark!

 ²Thou dost number the months they fulfil? And thou hast known the time of their bringing forth!

 ³They bow down, Their young ones they bring forth safely, Their pangs they cast forth.

 ⁴Safe are their young ones, They grow up in the field, they have gone out, And have not returned to them.

 ⁵Who hath sent forth the wild ass free? Yea, the bands of the wild ass who opened?

 ⁶Whose house I have made the wilderness, And his dwellings the barren land,

 ⁷He doth laugh at the multitude of a city, The cries of an exactor he heareth not.

 ⁸The range of mountains [is] his pasture, And after every green thing he seeketh.

 ⁹Is a Reem willing to serve thee? Doth he lodge by thy crib?

 ¹⁰Dost thou bind a Reem in a furrow [with] his thick band? Doth he harrow valleys after thee?

 ¹¹Dost thou trust in him because great [is] his power? And dost thou leave unto him thy labour?

 ¹²Dost thou trust in him That he doth bring back thy seed? And [to] thy threshing-floor doth gather [it]?

 ¹³The wing of the rattling ones exulteth, Whether the pinion of the ostrich or hawk.

 ¹⁴For she leaveth on the earth her eggs, And on the dust she doth warm them,

 ¹⁵And she forgetteth that a foot may press it, And a beast of the field tread it down.

 ¹⁶Her young ones it hath hardened without her, In vain [is] her labour without fear.

 ¹⁷For God hath caused her to forget wisdom, And He hath not given a portion To her in understanding:

 ¹⁸At the time on high she lifteth herself up, She laugheth at the horse and at his rider.

 ¹⁹Dost thou give to the horse might? Dost thou clothe his neck [with] a mane?

 ²⁰Dost thou cause him to rush as a locust? The majesty of his snorting [is] terrible.

 ²¹They dig in a valley, and he rejoiceth in power, He goeth forth to meet the armour.

 ²²He laugheth at fear, and is not affrighted, And he turneth not back from the face of the sword.

 ²³Against him rattle doth quiver, The flame of a spear, and a halbert.

 ²⁴With trembling and rage he swalloweth the ground, And remaineth not stedfast Because of the sound of a trumpet.

 ²⁵Among the trumpets he saith, Aha, And from afar he doth smell battle, Roaring of princes and shouting.

 ²⁶By thine understanding flieth a hawk? Spreadeth he his wings to the south?

 ²⁷At thy command goeth an eagle up high? Or lifteth he up his nest?

 ²⁸A rock he doth inhabit, Yea, he lodgeth on the tooth of a rock, and fortress.

 ²⁹From thence he hath sought food, To a far off place his eyes look attentively,

 ³⁰And his brood gulph up blood, And where the pierced [are] -- there [is] he!