1 Then Yahweh answered Job out of the storm:
2 Who is this that obscures divine plans with ignorant words?
3 Gird up your loins like a man; I will question you and you must answer.
4 Where were you when I founded the earth? Answer, and show me your knowledge.
5 Do you know who determined its size, who stretched out its measuring line?
6 On what were its bases set? Who laid its cornerstone,
7 while the morning stars sang together and the sons of God shouted for joy?
8 Who shut the sea behind closed doors when it burst forth from the womb,
9 when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling clothes;
10 when I set its limits with doors and bars in place,
11 when I said, "You will not go beyond these bounds; here is where your proud waves must halt?"
12 Have you ever commanded the morning, or shown the dawn its place,
13 that it might grasp the earth by its edges and shake the wicked out of it,
14 when it takes a clay color and changes its tint like a garment;
15 when the wicked are denied their own light, and their proud arm is shattered?
16 Have you journeyed to where the sea begins or walked in its deepest recesses?
17 Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of Shadow?
18 Have you an idea of the breadth of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this.
19 Where is the way to the home of light, and where does darkness dwell?
20 Can you take them to their own regions, and set them on their homeward paths?
21 You know, for you were born before them, and great is the number of your years!
22 Have you entered the storehouse of the snow or seen the storehouse of the hail,
23 which I reserve for times of woe, for days of war and battle?
24 What is the way to the place where lightning is dispersed, or the place whence the east wind begins spreading over the earth?
25 Who has cut a channel for the torrents of rain, and a path for the thunderstorm,
26 to bring rain to no-man's-land and to the unpeopled wilderness,
27 to enrich the wasted and desolate ground, to make the desert bloom with green?
28 Does the rain have a father? Who fathers the drops of dew?
29 From whose womb comes the ice, and who gives birth to the frost from the skies,
30 when the waters lie as hard as stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen?
31 Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, or loosen the bonds of Orion?
32 Can you guide the morning star in its season, or lead the Bear with its train?
33 Do you know the laws of the heavens, and can you establish their rule on earth?
34 Can you raise your voice to the clouds and order their waters to pour down?
35 Will lightnings flash at your command and report to you, "Here we are?"
36 Who has given the ibis foresight or endowed the cock with foreknowledge?
37 Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Who tilts the water jars of heaven
38 so that the dust cakes into a mass and clods of earth stick together?
39 Can you hunt the woods to appease the hunger of the lioness and her whelps,
40 as they crouch in their dens or lie in wait in the thicket?
41 Who provides prey for the raven when its young cry out to God and roam about desperate for food?
Versículos relacionados com Job, 38:
In Job chapter 38, God responds to Job in the middle of a storm, questioning him about who He is to question divine wisdom and the purpose of creation. God talks about the power of nature, the establishment of the borders of the sea and the origin of lightning, among other themes. Below are five verses related to the topics covered in Job 38:
Psalm 104:5-6: "You have established the earth on its foundations; it will never be shaken. You covered it with the abyss, as with a cloak; the waters surrounded the mountains." This verse talks about how God established the earth in his position and covered it with waters.
Proverbs 8:29: "When he fixed the clouds on top and made the springs of the sea waters get here," This verse describes how God created the clouds and established the boundaries of the sea.
Job 38:8: "Or who ended the sea with doors when he, erupting from the breast, came out to light," this verse is directly related to the theme of the borders of the sea mentioned by God in Job 38.
Psalm 29:3-4: "The voice of the Lord resonates over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the Lord over the many waters. The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is majestic." This verse mentions the power of the voice of God on the waters, a theme related to the description of the storm in Job 38.
Jeremiah 10:12: "He made the earth for his power, established the world for his wisdom, and extended the heavens for his intelligence." This verse talks about God's wisdom and power in the creation of the world, a central theme in God's response to Job 38.
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