📖 Job 38
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Then aunswered the Lorde vnto Iob out of the whirle winde, and saide:
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What is he that darkeneth his counsaile by wordes without knowledge?
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Girde vp thy loynes lyke a man: for I wyl question with thee, see thou geue me a direct aunswere.
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Where wast thou when I layed the foundations of the earth? Tell playnely, if thou hast vnderstanding.
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Who hath measured it, knowest thou? or who hath spread the lyne vpon it?
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Whereupon are the foundations set? or who layed the corner stone thereof?
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Where wast thou when the morning starres praysed me together, and all the children of God reioyced triumphantly?
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Who shut the sea with doores, when it brake foorth as out of the wombe?
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When I made the cloudes to be a covering for it, and swadled it with the darke:
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When I gaue it my commaundement, making doores and barres for it,
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Saying, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shalt thou laye downe thy proude and hie waues.
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Hast thou geue the morning his charge since thy dayes, and shewed the day spring his place,
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That it might take holde of the corners of the earth, and that the vngodly might be shaken out of it.
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They are fashioned as is the clay with the seale, and all stand vp as a garment.
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The vngodly shall be disapointed of their light, and the arme of the proude shalbe broken.
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Camest thou euer into the grounde of the sea, or walkedst in the lowe corners of the deepe?
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Haue the gates of death ben opened vnto thee? or hast thou seene the doores of the shadowe of death?
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Hast thou also perceaued how brode the earth is? If thou hast knowledge of all this:
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Then shewe me the way where light dwelleth, & where is the place of darkenesse?
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That thou shouldest receaue it in the boundes thereof, and know the pathes to their houses.
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Knewest thou afore thou wast borne how olde thou shouldest be?
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Wentest thou euer into the treasures of the snow, or hast thou seene the secrete places of the hayle,
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Which I haue prepared against the time of trouble, against the time of battaile and warre?
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By what way is the light parted? and into what land breaketh the east winde?
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Who deuideth the waters into diuers chanels? or who maketh a way for the lightening and thunder,
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To cause it to rayne on the earth where no man is, and in the wildernesse where none inhabiteth?
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To satisfie the desolate and waste grounde, and to cause the budde of the hearbe to spring foorth.
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Who is the father of the rayne? or who hath begotten the droppes of the deawe?
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Out of whose wombe came the yce? Who hath gendred the coldnesse of the ayre?
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That the waters are hidde as with a stone, and lye congealed aboue the deepe.
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Wylt thou hinder the sweete influences of the seuen starres? or loose the bandes of Orion?
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Canst thou bring foorth Mazzaroth in their time? canst thou also guide Arctutus with his sonnes?
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Knowest thou the course of heauen, that thou mayest set vp the ordinaunce thereof vpon the earth?
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Moreouer, canst thou lift vp thy voyce to the cloudes, that they may powre downe a great rayne vpon thee?
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Canst thou send the lightninges also, that they may go their way, and be obedient vnto thee, saying, Lo here are we?
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Who hath put wysdome in the reynes? or who hath geuen the heart vnderstanding?
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Who numbreth the cloudes in wysdome? who stilleth the vehement waters of the heauen?
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To cause the earth to grow into hardnesse, & the clots to cleaue fast together?
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Wylt thou hunt the pray for the lion? or fill the appetite of the lions whelpes,
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When they couche in their places, and tarie in the couert to lye in wayte?
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Who prouideth meate for the rauen, when his young ones crye vnto God, and flee about for lacke of meate?