The LORD Challenges Job 2 DRA Who is this that wrappeth up sentences in unskillful words? BSB BSB: “Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?
3 DRA Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and answer thou me. BSB BSB: Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.
5 DRA Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? BSB BSB: Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?
6 DRA Upon what are its bases grounded? or who laid the corner stone thereof, BSB BSB: On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone,
7 DRA When the morning stars praised me together, and all the sons of God made a joyful melody? BSB BSB: while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8 DRA Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb: BSB BSB: Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
9 DRA When I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in a mist as in swaddling bands? BSB BSB: when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,
10 DRA I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors: BSB BSB: when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,
11 DRA And I said: Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and here thou shalt break thy swelling waves. BSB BSB: and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?
12 DRA Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place? BSB BSB: In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,
13 DRA And didst thou hold the extremities of the earth shaking them, and hast thou shaken 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 DRA The seal shall be restored as clay, and shall 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 DRA From the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the high arm shall be broken. BSB BSB: Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.
16 DRA Hast thou entered into the depths of the sea, and walked in the lowest parts of the deep? BSB BSB: Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?
17 DRA Have the gates of death been opened to thee, and hast thou seen the darksome doors? BSB BSB: Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
18 DRA Hast thou considered the breadth of the earth? tell me, if thou knowest all things? BSB BSB: Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.
19 DRA Where is the way where light dwelleth, and where is the place of darkness: BSB BSB: Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,
20 DRA That thou mayst bring every thing to its own bounds, and understand the paths of the house thereof. BSB BSB: so you can lead it back to its border? Do you know the paths to its home?
21 DRA Didst thou know then that thou shouldst be born? and didst thou know the number of thy days? BSB BSB: Surely you know, for you were already born! And the number of your days is great!
22 DRA Hast thou entered into the storehouses of the snow, or has thou beheld the treasures of the hail: BSB BSB: Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,
23 DRA Which I have prepared for the time of the enemy, 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 DRA By what way is the light spread, and heat divided upon the earth? BSB BSB: In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?
25 DRA Who gave a course to violent showers, or a way for noisy thunder: BSB BSB: Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,
26 DRA That it should rain on the earth without man in the wilderness, where no mortal dwelleth: BSB BSB: to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,
27 DRA That it should fill the desert and desolate land, and should bring forth green grass? BSB BSB: to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?
28 DRA Who is the father of rain? or who begot the drops of dew? BSB BSB: Does the rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?
29 DRA Out of whose womb came the ice; and the frost from heaven who hath gendered it? BSB BSB: From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,
30 DRA The waters are hardened like a stone, and the surface of the deep is congealed. BSB BSB: when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?
31 DRA Shalt thou be able to join together the shining stars the Pleiades, or canst thou stop the turning about of Arcturus? BSB BSB: Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?
32 DRA Canst thou bring forth the day star in its time, and make the evening star to rise upon the children of the earth? BSB BSB: Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear and her cubs?
33 DRA Dost thou know the order of heaven, and canst thou set down the reason thereof on the earth? BSB BSB: Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?
34 DRA Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that an abundance of waters may cover thee? BSB BSB: Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?
35 DRA Canst thou send lightnings, and will they go, and will they return and say to thee: Here we are? BSB BSB: Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
36 DRA Who hath put wisdom in the heart of man? or who gave the cock understanding? BSB BSB: Who has put wisdom in the heart or given understanding to the mind?
37 DRA Who can declare the order of the heavens, or who can make the harmony of heaven to sleep? BSB BSB: Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens
38 DRA When was the dust poured on the earth, and the clods fastened together? BSB BSB: when the dust hardens into a mass and the clods of earth stick together?
40 DRA When they couch in the dens and lie in wait in holes? BSB BSB: when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait in the thicket?
41 DRA Who provideth food for the raven, when her young ones cry to God, wandering about, because they have no 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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