Douay Bible - Job Chapter 38

Job 38:1
Then the Lord answered Job out of a whirlwind, and said :

Job 38:2
Who is this that wrappeth up sentences in unskillful words?

Job 38:3
Gird up thy loins like a man : I will ask thee, and answer thou me.

Job 38:4
Where wast thou when I laid up the foundations of the earth ? tell me if thou hast understanding.

Job 38:5
Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?

Job 38:6
Upon what are its bases grounded? or who laid the corner stone thereof,

Job 38:7
When the morning stars praised me together, and all the sons of God made a joyful melody?

Job 38:8
Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb :

Job 38:9
when I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in a mist as in swaddling bands?

Job 38:10
I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors :

Job 38:11
And I said : hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and here thou shalt break thy swelling waves.

Job 38:12
Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place?

Job 38:13
And didst thou hold the extremities of the earth shaking them, and hast thou shaken the ungodly out of it?

Job 38:14
The seal shall be restored as clay, and shall stand as a garment :

Job 38:15
From the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the high arm shall be broken.

Job 38:16
Hast thou entered into the depths of the sea, and walked in the lowest parts of the deep?

Job 38:17
Have the gates of death been opened to thee, and hast thou seen the darksome doors?

Job 38:18
Hast thou considered the breadth of the earth? tell me, if thou knowest all things?

Job 38:19
Where is the way where light dwelleth, and where is the place of darkness :

Job 38:20
That thou mayst bring every thing to its own bounds, and understand the paths of the house thereof.

Job 38:21
Didst thou know then that thou shouldst be born ? and didst thou know the number of thy days?

Job 38:22
Hast thou entered into the storehouses of the snow, or has thou beheld the treasures of the hail :

Job 38:23
Which I have prepared for the time of the enemy, against the day of battle and war?

Job 38:24
By what way is the light spread, and heat divided upon the earth?

Job 38:25
Who gave a course to violent showers, or a way for noisy thunder :

Job 38:26
That it should rain on the earth without man in the wilderness, where no mortal dwelleth :

Job 38:27
That it should fill the desert and desolate land, and should bring forth green grass?

Job 38:28
Who is the father of rain ? or who begot the drops of dew?

Job 38:29
Out of whose womb came the ice; and the frost from heaven who hath gendered it?

Job 38:30
The waters are hardened like a stone, and the surface of the deep is congealed.

Job 38:31
Shalt thou be able to join together the shining stars the Pleiades, or canst thou stop the turning about of Arcturus?

Job 38:32
Canst thou bring forth the day star in its time, and make the evening star to rise upon the children of the earth?

Job 38:33
Dost thou know the order of heaven, and canst thou set down the reason thereof on the earth?

Job 38:34
Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that an abundance of waters may cover thee?

Job 38:35
Canst thou send lightnings, and will they go, and will they return and say to thee : Here we are?

Job 38:36
Who hath put wisdom in the heart of man? or who gave the cock understanding?

Job 38:37
Who can declare the order of the heavens, or who can make the harmony of heaven to sleep?

Job 38:38
When was the dust poured on the earth, and the clods fastened together?

Job 38:39
Wilt thou take the prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite of her whelps,

Job 38:40
When they couch in the dens and lie in wait in holes?

Job 38:41
Who provideth food for the raven, when her young ones cry to God, wandering about, because they have no meat?