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Job Chapter 38

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Job 38

1Then spake Jehovah to Job out of the whirlwind, and said:
Job 40:6, Job 40:6, 2 Kings 2:11, Job 37:1, Job 37:2
2Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
Job 42:3, Job 42:3, Job 35:16, Job 35:16, 1 Timothy 1:7
3Gird up thy loins like a man! I will ask thee, and answer thou me!
Job 40:7, Job 40:7, Exodus 12:11, 1 Peter 1:13, Jeremiah 1:17
4Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding!
Psalms 104:5, Psalms 104:5, Hebrews 1:10, Hebrews 1:10, Proverbs 30:4
5Who fixed its dimensions, that thou shouldst know it! Or who stretched out the line upon it?
Isaiah 40:12, Isaiah 40:12, Zechariah 2:1, Zechariah 2:2, Job 11:9
6Upon what were its foundations fixed? And who laid its corner-stone,
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
8And who shut up the sea with doors, When it burst forth as from the womb?
Genesis 1:9, Genesis 1:9, Proverbs 8:29, Jeremiah 5:22, Proverbs 8:29
9When I made the clouds its mantle, And thick darkness its swaddling-band;
Genesis 1:2, Genesis 1:2
10When I appointed for it my bound, And fixed for it bars and doors;
Jeremiah 5:22, Psalms 104:9, Jeremiah 5:22, Psalms 104:9, Job 26:10
11And said, Thus far shalt thou come, and no farther, And here shall thy proud waves be stayed!
Psalms 89:9, Psalms 89:9, Proverbs 8:29, Proverbs 8:29, Job 2:6
12Hast thou, in thy life, given charge to the morning, Or caused the day-spring to know its place,
Psalms 74:16, Psalms 74:16, Job 8:9, Psalms 148:3, Psalms 148:5
13That it should lay 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 by the seal; And all things stand forth as in rich apparel.
Psalms 104:6, Psalms 104:6, Psalms 104:2, Psalms 104:2
15But from the wicked their light is withheld, And the high-raised arm is broken.
Psalms 10:15, Psalms 10:15, Job 18:5, Psalms 37:17, Job 18:5
16Hast thou visited the springs of the sea, And walked through 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 disclosed to thee, And hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Psalms 9:13, Psalms 9:13, Psalms 107:18, Psalms 107:18, Job 3:5
18Hast thou surveyed the breadth of the earth? Declare, if thou knowest it all!
Jeremiah 31:37, Psalms 89:11, Psalms 89:12, Revelation 20:9, Jeremiah 31:37
19Where is the way to the abode of light? And darkness—where is its dwelling-place?
Ezekiel 32:8, Ezekiel 32:8, Matthew 27:45, Isaiah 45:7, Psalms 104:20
20That thou shouldst lead it to its boundary, And that thou shouldst know the paths to its mansion!
Job 26:10, Genesis 23:17, Genesis 10:19, Job 26:10, Genesis 23:17
21Surely thou knowest; for thou wast then born! And the number of thy years is great!
Job 15:7, Job 15:7, Job 38:4, Job 38:12, Job 38:4
22Hast thou visited the storehouses of the snow, Or seen the treasuries 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
24What is the way to where light is distributed, And the east wind spread abroad upon the earth?
Job 38:12, Job 38:13, Job 38:12, Job 38:13, Matthew 24:27
25Who hath prepared channels for the rain, And a path for the thunder-flash,
Job 28:26, Job 28:26, Psalms 29:3, Psalms 29:10, Psalms 29:3
26To give rain to the land without an inhabitant, To the wilderness wherein is no man;
Jeremiah 14:22, Jeremiah 14:22, Psalms 107:35, Hebrews 6:7, Hebrews 6:8
27To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, And cause the tender herb to spring forth?
Psalms 107:35, Psalms 107:35, Psalms 104:14, Psalms 104:14
28Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of the dew?
Jeremiah 14:22, Jeremiah 14:22, Psalms 147:8, Psalms 147:8, Job 29:19
29Out of whose womb came the ice? And who hath gendered the hoar-frost of heaven?
Psalms 147:16, Psalms 147:17, Psalms 147:16, Psalms 147:17, Job 37:10
30The waters are hid as under stone, And the face of the deep becometh solid.
Job 37:10, Job 37:10
31Canst thou fasten the bands of the Pleiades, Or loosen the chains of Orion?
Amos 5:8, Job 9:9, Amos 5:8, Job 9:9
32Canst thou lead forth the Signs in their season, Or guide the Bear with her sons?
Job 38:31, 2 Kings 23:5, Job 9:9, Job 38:31, 2 Kings 23:5
33Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens? Hast thou appointed their dominion over the earth?
Jeremiah 31:35, Jeremiah 31:36, Jeremiah 31:35, Jeremiah 31:36, Psalms 119:90
34Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, So that abundance of waters will cover thee?
Job 22:11, Job 22:11, Amos 5:8, James 5:18, 1 Samuel 12:18
35Canst thou send forth lightnings, so that they will go, And say to thee, "Here we are"?
2 Kings 1:14, Job 37:3, Numbers 11:1, Isaiah 6:8, Leviticus 10:2
36Who hath put understanding in the reins, And given intelligence to the mind?
Job 32:8, Job 32:8, Psalms 51:6, Psalms 51:6, Ecclesiastes 2:26
37Who numbereth the clouds in wisdom? And who poureth out the bottles of heaven,
Psalms 147:4, Psalms 147:4, Genesis 9:15, Genesis 8:1, Genesis 15:5
38When the dust floweth into a molten mass, And the clods cleave fast together?
39Canst thou hunt prey for the lioness, Or satisfy the hunger of the young lions,
Psalms 104:21, Psalms 104:21, Psalms 145:15, Psalms 145:16, Job 4:10
40When they couch 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 provideth for the raven his food, When his young ones cry unto God, While they wander about without food?
Luke 12:24, Luke 12:24, Matthew 6:26, Matthew 6:26, Psalms 147:9

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