The LORD Challenges Job 2 AKJV Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? BSB BSB: “Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?
3 AKJV Gird up now your loins like a man; for I will demand of you, and answer you me. BSB BSB: Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.
5 AKJV Who has laid the measures thereof, if you know? or who has stretched the line on it? BSB BSB: Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?
6 AKJV Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; BSB BSB: On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone,
7 AKJV When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? BSB BSB: while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8 AKJV Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? BSB BSB: Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
9 AKJV When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling cloth for it, BSB BSB: when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,
10 AKJV And broke up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, BSB BSB: when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,
11 AKJV And said, Till now shall you come, but no further: and here shall your proud waves be stayed? BSB BSB: and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?
12 AKJV Have you commanded the morning since your days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; BSB BSB: In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,
13 AKJV That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it? BSB BSB: that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?
14 AKJV It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment. BSB BSB: The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.
15 AKJV And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the high arm shall be broken. BSB BSB: Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.
16 AKJV Have you entered into the springs of the sea? or have you walked in the search of the depth? BSB BSB: Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?
17 AKJV Have the gates of death been opened to you? or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death? BSB BSB: Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
18 AKJV Have you perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if you know it all. BSB BSB: Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.
19 AKJV Where is the way where light dwells? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof, BSB BSB: Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,
20 AKJV That you should take it to the bound thereof, and that you should know the paths to the house thereof? BSB BSB: so you can lead it back to its border? Do you know the paths to its home?
21 AKJV Know you it, because you were then born? or because the number of your days is great? BSB BSB: Surely you know, for you were already born! And the number of your days is great!
22 AKJV Have you entered into the treasures of the snow? or have you seen the treasures of the hail, BSB BSB: Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,
23 AKJV Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war? BSB BSB: which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of war and battle?
24 AKJV By what way is the light parted, which scatters the east wind on the earth? BSB BSB: In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?
25 AKJV Who has divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder; BSB BSB: Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,
26 AKJV To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man; BSB BSB: to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,
27 AKJV To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth? BSB BSB: to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?
28 AKJV Has the rain a father? or who has begotten the drops of dew? BSB BSB: Does the rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?
29 AKJV Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who has gendered it? BSB BSB: From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,
30 AKJV The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen. BSB BSB: when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?
31 AKJV Can you bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? BSB BSB: Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?
32 AKJV Can you bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or can you guide Arcturus with his sons? BSB BSB: Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear and her cubs?
33 AKJV Know you the ordinances of heaven? can you set the dominion thereof in the earth? BSB BSB: Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?
34 AKJV Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you? BSB BSB: Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?
35 AKJV Can you send lightning, that they may go and say to you, Here we are? BSB BSB: Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
36 AKJV Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? or who has given understanding to the heart? BSB BSB: Who has put wisdom in the heart or given understanding to the mind?
37 AKJV Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven, BSB BSB: Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens
38 AKJV When the dust grows into hardness, and the clods stuck fast together? BSB BSB: when the dust hardens into a mass and the clods of earth stick together?
40 AKJV When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait? BSB BSB: when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait in the thicket?
41 AKJV Who provides for the raven his food? when his young ones cry to God, they wander for lack of meat. BSB BSB: Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?
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