📖 Job 38
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Then spake the LORDE vnto Iob out of the storme, and sayde:
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what is he, that hydeth his mynde with foolysh wordes?
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Gyrde vp thy loynes like a ma, for I will question the, se thou geue me a dyrecte answere.
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Where wast thou, when I layed ye foundacions of the earth? Tell planely yff thou hast vnderstondinge.
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Who hath measured it, knowest thou? Or, who hath spred ye lyne vpon it?
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Where vpon stode the pilers of it? Or, who layed ye corner stone?
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where wast thou when the mornynge starres gaue me prayse, ad when all the angels of God reioysed?
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Who shutt the see with dores, when it brake forth as a childe out off his mothers wombe?
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When I made the cloudes to be a coueringe for it, and swedled it with ye darcke?
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when I gaue it my comaundement, makynge dores & barres for it,
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sayenge: Hither to shalt thou come, but no further, and here shalt thou laye downe thy proude and hye wawes.
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Hast thou geue the mornynge his charge (as soone as thou wast borne) and shewed the dayespringe his place,
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yt it might take holde of the corners of the earth, & yt the vngodly might be shake out?
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Their tokes & weapes hast thou turned like claye, & set the vp agayne as the chaunginge of a garment.
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Yee thou hast spoyled the vngodly off their light, & broke the arme of the proude.
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Camest thou euer into the groude of the see, Or, hast thou walked in ye lowe corners of ye depe?
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Haue the gates of death bene opened vnto the or hast thou sene the dore of euerlastige treasure?
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Hast thou also perceaued, how brode ye earth is? Now yf thou hast knowlege of all,
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the shewe me where light dwelleth, and where darcknes is:
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yt thou mayest bringe vs vnto their quarters, yf thou cast tell the waye to their houses.
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Knewest thou (when thou wast borne) how olde thou shuldest be?
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Wentest thou euer in to the treasuries off the snowe, or hast thou sene ye secrete places of the hale:
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which I haue prepared agaynst the tyme of trouble, agaynst the tyme of batell & warre?
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By what waye is the light parted, & the heate dealt out vpon earth?
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Who deuydeth the abundauce of waters in to ryuers, or who maketh a waye for the stormy wether,
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yt it watereth & moystureth ye drye & baren grounde:
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to make the grasse growe in places where no body dwelleth, & in the wildernes where no ma remayneth?
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Who is the father of rayne? Or, who hath begotten the droppes of dew?
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Out of whose wobe came the yse? who hath gendred the coldnes of ye ayre?
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yt the waters are as harde as stones, & lye congeeled aboue the depe.
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Hast thou brought ye vij. starres together? Or, art thou able to breake the Circle of heaue?
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Cast thou bringe forth the mornynge starre or the euenynge starre at couenient tyme, & coueye the home agayne?
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Knowest thou the course off heaue, yt thou mayest set vp the ordinaunce therof vpo earth?
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Morouer, cast thou lift vp thy voyce to ye cloudes, yt they maye poure downe a greate rayne vpo the?
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Canst thou thodre also yt they maye go their waye, & be obediet vnto the, sayege: lo, here are we?
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Who geueth sure wisdome, or stedfast vnderstodinge?
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who nombreth the cloudes in wisdome? who stilleth ye vehement waters of the heaue?
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who turneth the clottes to dust, & the to be clottes agayne?
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Huntest thou the praye fro the Lyon, or fedest thou his whelpes
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lyege in their denes & lurkinge in their couches?
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who prouydeth meate for the rauen, whe his yonge ones crie vnto God, ad fle aboute for want of meate?