Berean Standard Bible

Job 38:22-38

22Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,23which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of war and battle?24In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?

25Who cuts a channel for the floodor clears a path for the thunderbolt,26to bring rain on a barren land,on a desert where no man lives,27to satisfy the parched wastelandand make it sprout with tender grass?28Does the rain have a father?Who has begotten the drops of dew?29From whose womb does the ice emerge?Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,30when the waters become hard as stoneand the surface of the deep is frozen?

31Can you bind the chains of the Pleiadesor loosen the belt of Orion?32Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons1or lead out the Bear2 and her cubs?33Do you know the laws of the heavens?Can you set their dominion over the earth?34Can you command the cloudsso that a flood of water covers you?35Can you send the lightning bolts on their way?Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?

36Who has put wisdom in the heart3or given understanding to the mind?37Who has the wisdom to count the clouds?Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens38when the dust hardens into a massand the clods of earth stick together?

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Notes

1. Job 38:32 Or bring forth Mazzaroth in its season ↩
2. Job 38:32 Or Leo or Arcturus ↩
3. Job 38:36 Or Who has given the ibis wisdom, that is, wisdom about the flooding of the Nile ↩

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Commentaries on Job 38