Job 38:1-11 English Standard Version
The Lord Answers Job
38 Then the Lord (A)answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:
2 “Who is this that (B)darkens counsel by words (C)without knowledge?
3 (D)Dress for action[a] like a man;
I will question you, and you make it known to me.
4 “Where were you when I (E)laid the foundation of the earth?
Tell me, if you have understanding.
5 Who determined its measurements—surely you know!
Or who stretched the line upon it?
6 On what were its bases sunk,
or who laid its cornerstone,
7 when the morning stars (F)sang together
and all (G)the sons of God (H)shouted for joy?
8 “Or who (I)shut in the sea with doors
when it burst out from the womb,
9 when I made clouds its garment
and (J)thick darkness its swaddling band,
10 and prescribed (K)limits for it
and set bars and doors,
11 and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther,
and here shall your (L)proud waves be stayed’?
Footnotes
- Job 38:3 Hebrew Gird up your loins
Cross references
- Job 38:1 : ch. 40:6; [ch. 13:22]
- Job 38:2 : ch. 42:3
- Job 38:2 : See ch. 35:16
- Job 38:3 : 1 Kgs. 18:46
- Job 38:4 : Ps. 104:5; [Prov. 30:4; Isa. 40:12-14]; See Prov. 8:24-29
- Job 38:7 : [Ps. 19:1-4]
- Job 38:7 : See ch. 1:6
- Job 38:7 : [Luke 2:13, 14]
- Job 38:8 : Gen. 1:9; Ps. 33:7; 104:8, 9; Jer. 5:22
- Job 38:9 : ch. 22:13
- Job 38:10 : [ver. 33 (Heb.)]
- Job 38:11 : [Ps. 65:7; 89:9; 93:4]
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