Job 38:1‑41• 1And Jehovah answered Job out of the storm and said,
2Who [is] this darkening counsel by words without knowledge?
3Gird up now thy loins like a man,{HR}And I will ask thee, and make me know.
4Where wast thou when I founded the earth?{HR}Declare if thou hast understanding.
5Who fixed its measure that thou shouldest know,{HR}Or who stretched the line upon it?
6Whereon are its sockets sunken,{HR}Or who laid down its corner-stone,
7When the morning stars sang together,{HR}And all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8And [who] shut up the sea with doors,{HR}When it burst forth — came out of the womb,
9When I made the cloud its garment,{HR}And thick darkness its swaddling-band,
10And broke for it my law, and set bars and doors,
11And said, Hitherto shalt thou come and no farther,{HR}And here let one set against the pride of thy waves?
12Hast thou, from thy days, commanded the mornings,{HR}Made the dawn to know its place,
13To take hold of the wings of the earth,{HR}That the wicked might be shaken out of it,
14That it may change like signet-clay,{HR}And things stand forth like a garment,
15And from the wicked their light is withheld,{HR}And the uplifted arm is broken?
16Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea,{HR}And walked about the secret of the deep?
17Have the gates of death been disclosed to thee?{HR}And seest thou the gates of the shadow of death?
18Hast thou strictly attended to the breadths of the earth?{HR}Declare if thou knowest the whole of it.
19What [is] the way the light dwelleth,{HR}And darkness, where [is] its place,
20That thou mightest bring it to its bound,{HR}And that thou mightest know the path [to] its house?
21Thou knowest! for thou wast then born,{HR}And the number of thy days [is] great.
22Hast thou entered into the storehouses of the snow,{HR}Or hast thou seen the storehouses of the hail,
23Which I have reserved against the time of trouble,{HR}Against the day of battle and war?
24Where is the way the light is distributed,{HR}The east wind is dispersed over the earth?
25Who divideth watercourses for the torrents,{HR}Or a way for the lightning of thunder,
26To cause it to rain on the land [where is] no man.{HR}The wilderness wherein [is] no man,
27To satisfy the desolate and waste,{HR}And to make the place of the green herb to sprout?
28Hath the rain a father?{HR}Or who begetteth the drops of dew?
29Out of whose womb cometh the ice?{HR}And the frost of heaven, who bringeth it forth?
30The waters hide themselves like stone,{HR}And the face of the deep cleaveth together.
31Canst thou bind the bands of the Pleiades,{HR}Or unloose the traces of Orion?
32Canst thou bring forth the Zodiac in his season,{HR}And as for Arcturus with its young, guide them?
33Knowest thou the laws of heaven?{HR}Canst thou set its dominion over the earth?
34Canst thou apply thy voice to the cloud,{HR}And abundance of water shall cover thee?
35Canst thou send forth lightnings, and they shall go{HR}And say to thee, here we [are]!
36Who put wisdom in the inward parts?{HR}Or who gave understanding to the perception?
37Who regulateth the clouds by wisdom,{HR}Or who inclineth the pitchers of heaven,
38When the dust is poured into hardness,{HR}And the clods are compacted together?
39Dost thou hunt prey for the lioness,{HR}And fill the desire of the young lions,
40When they couch in dens — abide in the covert in ambush?
41Who provideth for the raven his meat,{HR}When his young cry to God [El] — wander without food? (Job 38:1‑41)
Job 41:1‑34• 1Dost thou draw leviathan with an angle,{HR}Or, with a cord thou lettest down, his tongue?
2Dost thou put a rush in his nose,{HR}Or bore his jaw with a thorn?
3Will he multiply supplications to thee?{HR}Will he speak to thee tender things?
4Will he make a covenant with thee?{HR}Wilt thou take him [for] ever as a slave?
5Wilt thou sport with him as a bird, and bind him for thy girls?
6Let partners bargain for him — divide him among traders!
7Dost thou fill his skin with pikes, or his head with fish-spears?
8Put thine hand on him — remember the battle —{HR}Thou wilt not do it again:
9Behold, his hope proveth false.{HR}Even at the sight of him is not [one] cast down?
10None is so fierce as to provoke him.{HR}And who [is] he that maketh a stand before me?
11Who first gave to me, and I must repay?{HR}Under the whole heaven it [is] mine.
12I will not be silent about his parts,{HR}And the matter of his powers, and the beauty of his structure.
13Who hath uncovered the face of his garment?{HR}Into his double jaws who entereth in?
14The doors of his face, who hath opened?{HR}Round about his teeth [is] terror;
15A pride [are] the concave shields, shut up [as] a close seal;
16One to another they join, and air entereth not between them;
17One to another they adhere, they hold together, and separate not.
18His sneezing flasheth forth light,{HR}And his eyes [are] as eyelids of the dawn.
19Out of his mouth proceed torches, sparks of fire escape.
20Out of his nostrils issue the smoke,{HR}As out of a seething pot and caldron.
21His breath kindleth coals,{HR}And a flame cometh out from his mouth.
22In his neck strength lodgeth, and before him danceth terror.
23The flakes of his flesh are fitted close together;{HR}They are fixed fast on him, immovable.
24His heart [is] firm as a stone, as a nether [millstone].
25At his rising up the mighty tremble;{HR}From terror they miss their mark.
26The sword of his overtaker doth not hold, spear, mace, nor lance;
27He reckoneth iron as straw, copper as rotten wood;
28The bolt (child) of the bow causeth him not to flee;{HR}Sling-stones are changed into stubble for him;
29Clubs are reckoned as stubble;{HR}He laugheth at the shaking of a javelin.
30His under parts [are] the sharpest of shards;{HR}He spreadeth a threshing-roller on the mire.
31He maketh the deep boil as a pot,{HR}He maketh the sea like a pot of ointment;
32After him he maketh the path to shine —{HR}One would think the deep hoary.
33There is not on the dust dominion over him,{HR}Who is made to be without dread;
34He looketh on all that is high,{HR}He [is] king over all the sons of pride. (Job 41:1‑34)
Jer. 32:17‑19• 17Ah Lord Jehovah! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:
18thou showest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, Jehovah of hosts, is his name,
19great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings: (Jer. 32:17‑19)