Berean Standard Bible

Job 38:4-27

4Where 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,17while the morning stars sang together and 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’?

12In your days, have you commanded the morningor assigned the dawn its place,13that it might spread to the ends of the earthand shake the wicked out of it?14The earth takes shape like clay under a seal;its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.15Light is withheld from the wicked,and their upraised arm is broken.

16Have you journeyed to the vents of the seaor walked in the trenches of the deep?17Have the gates of death been revealed to you?Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?18Have you surveyed the extent of the earth?Tell Me, if you know all this.

19Where is the way to the home of light?Do you know where darkness resides,20so you can lead it back to its border?Do you know the paths to its home?21Surely you know, for you were already born!And the number of your days is great!

22Have you entered the storehouses of snowor 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?

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1. Job 38:6 Or who set its core in place ↩

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