36:23 Who has prescribed his ways for him?
Or said to him, ‘You have done what is wicked’?
38:4 “Where were you
when I laid the foundation
Tell me,
38:5 Who set its measurements – if
or who stretched a measuring line across it?
38:6 On what
or who laid its cornerstone –
38:7 when the morning stars
and all the sons of God
38:8 “Who shut up
when it burst forth,
38:9 when I made
and thick darkness its swaddling band,
38:10 when I prescribed
and set
38:11 when I said, ‘To here you may come
and no farther,
here your proud waves will be confined’?
38:12 Have you ever in your life
or made the dawn know
38:13 that it might seize the corners of the earth,
and shake the wicked out of it?
38:14 The earth takes shape like clay under a seal;
its features
38:15 Then from the wicked the light is withheld,
and the arm raised in violence
38:16 Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea,
or walked about in the recesses of the deep?
38:17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you?
Have you seen the gates of deepest darkness?
38:18 Have you considered the vast expanses of the earth?
Tell me, if you know it all!
38:19 “In what direction
and darkness, where is its place,
38:20 that you may take them to their borders
and perceive the pathways to their homes?
38:21 You know, for you were born before them;
and the number of your days is great!
38:22 Have you entered the storehouse
or seen the armory
38:23 which I reserve for the time of trouble,
for the day of war and battle?
38:24 In what direction is lightning
or the east winds scattered over the earth?
38:25 Who carves out a channel for the heavy rains,
and a path for the rumble of thunder,
38:26 to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land,
a desert where there are no human beings,
38:27 to satisfy a devastated and desolate land,
and to cause it to sprout with vegetation?
38:28 Does the rain have a father,
or who has fathered the drops of the dew?
38:29 From whose womb does the ice emerge,
and the frost from the sky,
38:30 when the waters become hard
when the surface of the deep is frozen solid?
38:31 Can you tie the bands
or release the cords of Orion?
38:32 Can you lead out
the constellations
or guide the Bear with its cubs?
38:33 Do you know the laws of the heavens,
or can you set up their rule over the earth?
38:34 Can you raise your voice to the clouds
so that a flood of water covers you?
38:35 Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go?
Will they say to you, ‘Here we are’?
38:36 Who has put wisdom in the heart,
or has imparted understanding to the mind?
38:37 Who by wisdom can count the clouds,
and who can tip over
38:38 when the dust hardens
and the clumps of earth stick together?
38:39 “Do you hunt prey for the lioness,
and satisfy the appetite
38:40 when they crouch in their dens,
when they wait in ambush in the thicket?
38:41 Who prepares prey for the raven,
when its young cry out to God
and wander about
40:8 Would you indeed annul
Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?
40:9 Do you have an arm as powerful as God’s,
and can you thunder with a voice like his?
40:10 Adorn yourself, then, with majesty and excellency,
and clothe yourself with glory and honor!
40:11 Scatter abroad
Look at every proud man
40:1 Then the Lord answered Job:
29:11 “As soon as the ear heard these things,
and when the eye saw them, it bore witness to me,
8:23 From eternity I was appointed,
from the beginning, from before the world existed.
8:24 When there were no deep oceans
when there were no springs overflowing
8:25 before the mountains were set in place –
before the hills – I was born,
8:26 before he made the earth and its fields,
or the beginning
8:27 When he established the heavens, I was there;
when he marked out the horizon
8:28 when he established the clouds above,
when the fountains of the deep grew strong,
8:29 when he gave the sea his decree
that the waters should not pass over his command,
when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
8:30 then I was
and I was his delight
rejoicing before him at all times,
40:13 Who comprehends
or gives him instruction as his counselor?
40:14 From whom does he receive directions?
Who
or imparts knowledge to him,
or instructs him in skillful design?
4:35 All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing.
He does as he wishes with the army of heaven
and with those who inhabit the earth.
No one slaps
and says to him, ‘What have you done?’
11:34 For who has known the mind of the Lord,
or who has been his counselor?
11:35 Or who has first given to God,
that God
11:36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever! Amen.