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        • 1. Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm. He said:
            • 2. "Who is this that darkens my counsel with words without knowledge?
                • 3. Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me.
                    • 4. "Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand.
                        • 5. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?
                            • 6. On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone--
                                • 7. while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?
                                    • 8. "Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
                                        • 9. when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness,
                                            • 10. when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place,
                                                • 11. when I said, 'This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt'?
                                                    • 12. "Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place,
                                                        • 13. that it might take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it?
                                                            • 14. The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features stand out like those of a garment.
                                                                • 15. The wicked are denied their light, and their upraised arm is broken.
                                                                    • 16. "Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep?
                                                                        • 17. Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
                                                                            • 18. Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this.
                                                                                • 19. "What is the way to the abode of light? And where does darkness reside?
                                                                                    • 20. Can you take them to their places? Do you know the paths to their dwellings?
                                                                                        • 21. Surely you know, for you were already born! You have lived so many years!
                                                                                            • 22. "Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail,
                                                                                                • 23. which I reserve for times of trouble, for days of war and battle?
                                                                                                    • 24. What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed, or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?
                                                                                                        • 25. Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain, and a path for the thunderstorm,
                                                                                                            • 26. to water a land where no man lives, a desert with no one in it,
                                                                                                                • 27. to satisfy a desolate wasteland and make it sprout with grass?
                                                                                                                    • 28. Does the rain have a father? Who fathers the drops of dew?
                                                                                                                        • 29. From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens
                                                                                                                            • 30. when the waters become hard as stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen?
                                                                                                                                • 31. "Can you bind the beautiful Pleiades? Can you loose the cords of Orion?
                                                                                                                                    • 32. Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear with its cubs?
                                                                                                                                        • 33. Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up God'sdominion over the earth?
                                                                                                                                            • 34. "Can you raise your voice to the clouds and cover yourself with a flood of water?
                                                                                                                                                • 35. Do you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, 'Here we are'?
                                                                                                                                                    • 36. Who endowed the heart with wisdom or gave understanding to the mind?
                                                                                                                                                        • 37. Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens
                                                                                                                                                            • 38. when the dust becomes hard and the clods of earth stick together?
                                                                                                                                                                • 39. "Do you hunt the prey for the lioness and satisfy the hunger of the lions
                                                                                                                                                                    • 40. when they crouch in their dens or lie in wait in a thicket?
                                                                                                                                                                        • 41. Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?
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