35 你能命闪电发出,
让它听候调遣吗?
36 谁将智慧放在人胸中?
谁使人内心有聪明?
37-38 尘土结成硬团,
土块黏在一起时,
谁能凭智慧数算云彩?
谁能倾倒天上的水囊?

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35 Do you send the lightning bolts on their way?(A)
    Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
36 Who gives the ibis wisdom[a](B)
    or gives the rooster understanding?[b](C)
37 Who has the wisdom to count the clouds?
    Who can tip over the water jars(D) of the heavens(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 38:36 That is, wisdom about the flooding of the Nile
  2. Job 38:36 That is, understanding of when to crow; the meaning of the Hebrew for this verse is uncertain.