Berean Standard Bible

Job 38:1-11

1Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:

2“Who is this who obscures My counselby words without knowledge?13Now brace yourself2 like a man;I will question you, and you shall inform Me.34Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?Tell Me, if you have understanding.5Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know!Or who stretched a measuring line across it?6On what were its foundations set,or who laid its cornerstone,47while the morning stars sang togetherand all the sons of God shouted for joy?

8Who enclosed the sea behind doorswhen it burst forth from the womb,9when I made the clouds its garmentand thick darkness its blanket,10when I fixed its boundariesand set in place its bars and doors,11and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther;here your proud waves must stop’?

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Notes

1. Job 38:2 Cited in Job 42:3 ↩
2. Job 38:3 Hebrew gird up your loins ↩
3. Job 38:3 Cited in Job 42:4 ↩
4. Job 38:6 Or who set its core in place ↩

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