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Job Chapter 38

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Job 38

1Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind,
Job 40:6, Job 40:6, 2 Kings 2:11, Job 37:1, Job 37:2
2"Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
Job 42:3, Job 42:3, Job 35:16, Job 35:16, 1 Timothy 1:7
3Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me!
Job 40:7, Job 40:7, Exodus 12:11, 1 Peter 1:13, Jeremiah 1:17
4"Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.
Psalms 104:5, Psalms 104:5, Hebrews 1:10, Hebrews 1:10, Proverbs 30:4
5Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?
Isaiah 40:12, Isaiah 40:12, Zechariah 2:1, Zechariah 2:2, Job 11:9
6Whereupon were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone,
Job 26:7, Job 26:7, Psalms 104:5, Psalms 104:5, 2 Peter 3:5
7when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Revelation 5:11, Revelation 5:11, Job 1:6, Job 1:6, Revelation 22:16
8"Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth from the womb,
Genesis 1:9, Genesis 1:9, Proverbs 8:29, Jeremiah 5:22, Proverbs 8:29
9when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,
Genesis 1:2, Genesis 1:2
10marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,
Jeremiah 5:22, Psalms 104:9, Jeremiah 5:22, Psalms 104:9, Job 26:10
11and said, 'Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?'
Psalms 89:9, Psalms 89:9, Proverbs 8:29, Proverbs 8:29, Job 2:6
12"Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place;
Psalms 74:16, Psalms 74:16, Job 8:9, Psalms 148:3, Psalms 148:5
13that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?
Psalms 104:35, Job 37:3, Psalms 104:35, Job 37:3, Exodus 14:27
14It is changed as clay under the seal, and stands forth as a garment.
Psalms 104:6, Psalms 104:6, Psalms 104:2, Psalms 104:2
15From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.
Psalms 10:15, Psalms 10:15, Job 18:5, Psalms 37:17, Job 18:5
16"Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
Proverbs 8:24, Proverbs 8:24, Psalms 77:19, Psalms 77:19, Job 26:5
17Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Psalms 9:13, Psalms 9:13, Psalms 107:18, Psalms 107:18, Job 3:5
18Have you comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if you know it all.
Jeremiah 31:37, Psalms 89:11, Psalms 89:12, Revelation 20:9, Jeremiah 31:37
19"What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,
Ezekiel 32:8, Ezekiel 32:8, Matthew 27:45, Isaiah 45:7, Psalms 104:20
20that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?
Job 26:10, Genesis 23:17, Genesis 10:19, Job 26:10, Genesis 23:17
21Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!
Job 15:7, Job 15:7, Job 38:4, Job 38:12, Job 38:4
22Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, or have you seen the treasures of the hail,
Job 37:6, Job 37:6, Psalms 135:7, Psalms 135:7, Job 6:16
23which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
Joshua 10:11, Joshua 10:11, Isaiah 30:30, Isaiah 30:30, Exodus 9:18
24By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?
Job 38:12, Job 38:13, Job 38:12, Job 38:13, Matthew 24:27
25Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm;
Job 28:26, Job 28:26, Psalms 29:3, Psalms 29:10, Psalms 29:3
26To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; on the wilderness, in which there is no man;
Jeremiah 14:22, Jeremiah 14:22, Psalms 107:35, Hebrews 6:7, Hebrews 6:8
27to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to spring forth?
Psalms 107:35, Psalms 107:35, Psalms 104:14, Psalms 104:14
28Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?
Jeremiah 14:22, Jeremiah 14:22, Psalms 147:8, Psalms 147:8, Job 29:19
29Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it?
Psalms 147:16, Psalms 147:17, Psalms 147:16, Psalms 147:17, Job 37:10
30The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.
Job 37:10, Job 37:10
31"Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?
Amos 5:8, Job 9:9, Amos 5:8, Job 9:9
32Can you lead forth the constellations in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?
Job 38:31, 2 Kings 23:5, Job 9:9, Job 38:31, 2 Kings 23:5
33Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?
Jeremiah 31:35, Jeremiah 31:36, Jeremiah 31:35, Jeremiah 31:36, Psalms 119:90
34"Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?
Job 22:11, Job 22:11, Amos 5:8, James 5:18, 1 Samuel 12:18
35Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, 'Here we are?'
2 Kings 1:14, Job 37:3, Numbers 11:1, Isaiah 6:8, Leviticus 10:2
36Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?
Job 32:8, Job 32:8, Psalms 51:6, Psalms 51:6, Ecclesiastes 2:26
37Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of the sky,
Psalms 147:4, Psalms 147:4, Genesis 9:15, Genesis 8:1, Genesis 15:5
38when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together?
39"Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
Psalms 104:21, Psalms 104:21, Psalms 145:15, Psalms 145:16, Job 4:10
40when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?
Job 37:8, Job 37:8, Genesis 49:9, Numbers 23:24, Numbers 24:9
41Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?
Luke 12:24, Luke 12:24, Matthew 6:26, Matthew 6:26, Psalms 147:9

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