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\c 38
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\v 1 Then Yahweh called to Job out of a fierce storm and said,
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\q
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\v 2 “Who is this who brings darkness to my plans
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\q by means of words without knowledge?
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\q
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\v 3 Now gird up your loins like a man
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\q for I will ask you questions, and you must answer me.
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\q
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\v 4 Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundations?
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\q Tell me, if you have so much understanding.
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\q
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\v 5 Who determined its dimensions? Tell me, if you know.
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\q Who stretched the measuring line over it?
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\q
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\v 6 On what were its foundations laid?
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\q Who laid its cornerstone
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\q
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\v 7 when the morning stars sang together
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\q and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
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\b
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\q
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\v 8 Who shut up the sea with doors
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\q when it burst out, as if it had come out of the womb—
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\q
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\v 9 when I made clouds its clothing,
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\q and thick darkness its swaddling bands?
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\q
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\v 10 That was when I marked out for the sea my boundary,
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\q and when I placed its bars and doors,
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\q
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\v 11 and when I said to it, ‘You may come this far, but no farther;
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\q here is where I will put a boundary to the pride of your waves.’
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\b
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\q
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\v 12 Have you ever, since your own days began, given orders to the morning to begin,
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\q and caused the morning dawn to know its place in the scheme of things,
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\q
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\v 13 so that it might take hold of the sides of the earth
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\q so that wicked people might be shaken out of it?
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\q
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\v 14 The earth is changed in appearance like clay changes under a seal;
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\q all things on it stand out clearly like the folds of a piece of clothing.
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\q
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\v 15 From wicked people their 'light' is taken away;
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\q their uplifted arm is broken.
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\b
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\q
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\v 16 Have you gone to the sources of the sea waters?
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\q Have you walked in the lowest parts of the deep?
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\q
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\v 17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you?
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\q Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
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\q
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\v 18 Have you understood the earth in its expanse?
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\q Tell me, if you know it all.
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\b
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\q
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\v 19 Where is the way to the resting place of light—
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\q as for darkness, where is its place?
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\q
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\v 20 Can you lead light and darkness to their places of work?
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\q Can you find the way back to their houses for them?
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\q
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\v 21 Undoubtedly you know, for you were born then;
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\q the number of your days is so large!
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\q
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\v 22 Have you entered the storehouses for the snow,
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\q or have you seen the storehouses for the hail,
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\q
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\v 23 these things that I have kept for times of trouble,
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\q for days of battle and war?
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\q
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\v 24 What is the path to where the lightning bolts are distributed
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\q or to where the winds are scattered from the east over the earth?
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\q
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\v 25 Who has created the channels for the floods of rain,
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\q or who has made the routes for the outbursts of thunder,
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\q
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\v 26 to cause it to rain on lands where no person exists,
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\q and on the wilderness, in which there is no one,
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\q
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\v 27 in order to meet the needs of barren and lonely regions,
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\q and to make the tender grass sprout up?
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\q
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\v 28 Is there a father of the rain?
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\q Who has engendered the dewdrops?
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\q
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\v 29 Out of whose womb did the ice come?
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\q Who bore the white frost out of the sky?
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\q
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\v 30 The waters hide themselves and become like stone;
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\q the surface of the deep becomes frozen.
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\b
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\q
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\v 31 Can you fasten chains on the Pleiades,
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\q or undo the cords of Orion?
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\q
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\v 32 Can you lead the constellations to appear at their proper times?
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\q Can you guide the Bear with its children?
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\q
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\v 33 Do you know the regulations of the sky?
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\q Could you set in place the sky’s rule over the earth?
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\b
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\q
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\v 34 Can you raise your voice up to the clouds,
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\q so that an abundance of rainwater may cover you?
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\q
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\v 35 Can you send out bolts of lightning that they may go out,
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\q that they say to you, ‘Here we are'?
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\q
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\v 36 Who has put wisdom in the clouds
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\q or has given understanding to the mists?
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\q
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\v 37 Who can number the clouds by his skill?
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\q Who can pour out the water skins of the sky
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\q
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\v 38 when the dust runs into a hard mass
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\q and the clods of earth clump tightly together?
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\b
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\q
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\v 39 Can you hunt down a victim for a lioness
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\q or satisfy the appetite of her young lion cubs
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\q
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\v 40 when they are crouching in their dens
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\q and sheltering in hiding to lie in wait?
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\q
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\v 41 Who provides victims for the ravens
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\q when their young ones cry out to God
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\q and stagger about for lack of food?
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