The LORD Challenges Job 2 Brenton Who is this that hides counsel from me, and confines words in his heart, and thinks to conceal them from me? BSB BSB: “Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?
3 Brenton Gird thy loins like a man; and I will ask thee, and do thou answer me. BSB BSB: Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.
5 Brenton who set the measures of it, if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it? BSB BSB: Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?
6 Brenton On what are its rings fastened? and who is he that laid the corner-stone upon it? BSB BSB: On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone,
7 Brenton When the stars were made, all my angels praised me with a loud voice. BSB BSB: while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8 Brenton And I shut up the sea with gates, when it rushed out, coming forth out of its mother's womb. BSB BSB: Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
9 Brenton And I made a cloud its clothing, and swathed it in mist. BSB BSB: when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,
10 Brenton And I set bounds to it, surrounding it with bars and gates. BSB BSB: when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,
11 Brenton And I said to it, Hitherto shalt thou come, but thou shalt not go beyond, but thy waves shall be confined within thee. BSB BSB: and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?
12 Brenton Or did I order the morning light in thy time; and did the morning star then first see his appointed place; BSB BSB: In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,
13 Brenton to lay hold of the extremities of the earth, to cast out the ungodly out of it? BSB BSB: that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?
14 Brenton Or didst thou take clay of the ground, and form a living creature, and set it with the power of speech upon the earth? BSB BSB: The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.
15 Brenton And hast thou removed light from the ungodly, and crushed the arm of the proud? BSB BSB: Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.
16 Brenton Or hast thou gone to the source of the sea, and walked in the tracks of the deep? BSB BSB: Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?
17 Brenton And do the gates of death open to thee for fear; and did the porters of hell quake when they saw thee? BSB BSB: Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
18 Brenton And hast thou been instructed in the breadth of the whole earth under heaven? tell me now, what is the extent of it? BSB BSB: Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.
19 Brenton And in what kind of a land does the light dwell? and of what kind is the place of darkness? BSB BSB: Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,
20 Brenton If thou couldest bring me to their utmost boundaries, and if also thou knowest their paths; BSB BSB: so you can lead it back to its border? Do you know the paths to its home?
21 Brenton I know then that thou wert born at that time, and the number of thy years is great. BSB BSB: Surely you know, for you were already born! And the number of your days is great!
22 Brenton But hast thou gone to the treasures of snow? and hast thou seen the treasures of hail? BSB BSB: Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,
23 Brenton And is there a store of them , for thee against the time of thine enemies, for the day of wars and battle? BSB BSB: which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of war and battle?
24 Brenton And whence proceeds the frost? or whence is the south wind dispersed over the whole world under heaven? BSB BSB: In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?
25 Brenton And who prepared a course for the violent rain, and a way for the thunders; BSB BSB: Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,
26 Brenton to rain upon the land where there is no man, the wilderness, where there is not a man in it; so as to feed the untrodden and uninhabited land , BSB BSB: to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,
27 Brenton and cause it to send forth a crop of green herbs? BSB BSB: to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?
28 Brenton Who is the rain's father? and who has generated the drops of dew? BSB BSB: Does the rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?
29 Brenton And out of whose womb comes the ice? and who has produced the frost in the sky, BSB BSB: From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,
30 Brenton which descends like flowing water? who has terrified the face of the ungodly? BSB BSB: when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?
31 Brenton And dost thou understand the band of Pleias, and hast thou opened the barrier of Orion? BSB BSB: Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?
32 Brenton Or wilt thou reveal Mazuroth in his season, and the evening star with his rays? Wilt thou guide them? BSB BSB: Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear and her cubs?
33 Brenton And knowest thou the changes of heaven, or the events which take place together under heaven? BSB BSB: Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?
34 Brenton And wilt thou call a cloud with thy voice, and will it obey thee with a violent shower of much rain? BSB BSB: Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?
35 Brenton And wilt thou send lightnings, and they shall go? and shall they say to thee, What is thy pleasure ? BSB BSB: Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
36 Brenton And who has given to women skill in weaving, or knowledge of embroidery? BSB BSB: Who has put wisdom in the heart or given understanding to the mind?
37 Brenton And who is he that numbers the clouds in wisdom, and has bowed the heaven down to the earth? BSB BSB: Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens
38 Brenton For it is spread out as dusty earth, and I have cemented it as one hewn stone to another. BSB BSB: when the dust hardens into a mass and the clods of earth stick together?
40 Brenton For they fear in their lairs, and lying in wait couch in the woods. BSB BSB: when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait in the thicket?
41 Brenton And who has prepared food for the raven? for its young ones wander and cry to the Lord, in search of food. 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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