The LORD Challenges Job 2 UDB "Who are you to bring confusion to what I plan to do? You are speaking ignorantly! BSB BSB: “Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?
3 UDB I want to ask you some questions, so act like a man and get ready to answer my questions. BSB BSB: Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.
5 UDB If it was not I who decided how large the earth would be, then who decided? Do you know who stretched a line around the earth to measure it? Since you think that you know so much, you should surely know that! BSB BSB: Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?
6 UDB What supports the pillars on which the earth rests? When the stars that shine early in the morning sang together, and someone put in place the stone that causes the earth to stay in its place, and all the angels shouted joyfully when they saw that happen, who laid that cornerstone? BSB BSB: On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone,
8 UDB When the seas poured out from under the earth, who prevented the water from flooding over the land? BSB BSB: Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
9 UDB It was I, not you, who caused clouds to come over the seas and caused it to become very dark under those clouds. BSB BSB: when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,
10 UDB I set limits for the seas, and I put barriers so that the water would not come over the land. BSB BSB: when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,
11 UDB I pointed to the shore and said to the water, 'I permit you to come up to here, but I do not permit you to come any farther. Your powerful waves must stop here!' BSB BSB: and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?
12 UDB Job, have you ever commanded the morning to begin? Have you ever told the sun to start rising and begin a new day? BSB BSB: In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,
13 UDB Have you ever told the dawn to spread out over the whole earth with the result that wicked people run away from the light? BSB BSB: that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?
14 UDB When it becomes light after the dawn, the hills and the valleys become clear like a seal gives an image to the clay under it, or like the folds in a cloth. BSB BSB: The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.
15 UDB When it becomes daylight, the wicked do not have the darkness that they like; in the daylight they no longer are able to hurt anyone. BSB BSB: Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.
16 UDB Job, have you traveled to the springs in the bottom of the ocean from which the water in the seas comes? Have you investigated the very bottom of the oceans? BSB BSB: Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?
17 UDB Has someone shown you the gates to the place where dead people are, the gates to the place where it is very dark among those who are dead? BSB BSB: Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
18 UDB Do you know how big the earth is? Tell me, if you know all these things! BSB BSB: Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.
19 UDB Where is the road to the place where light comes from? Can you tell me where darkness lives? BSB BSB: Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,
20 UDB Can you take the light and the darkness to the places where they must do their work every day? Do you know where the road is that goes back to their homes? BSB BSB: so you can lead it back to its border? Do you know the paths to its home?
21 UDB I am sure that you know these things because you were born before the time when all things were created; you must be very old! BSB BSB: Surely you know, for you were already born! And the number of your days is great!
22 UDB Have you entered the place where I store the snow and the place where I keep the hail? BSB BSB: Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,
23 UDB I store the snow and the hail in order that I can use them when people are fighting on earth, in times when they are fighting wars. BSB BSB: which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of war and battle?
24 UDB Where is the road to the place from which I cause the lightning to flash? Where is the place from where the east wind begins to blow over all the earth? BSB BSB: In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?
25 UDB Who created the channels in which the rain comes down from the sky? Who makes the roads for the thunder in the air? BSB BSB: Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,
26 UDB Who causes rain to fall in the desert, in places where no one lives? BSB BSB: to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,
27 UDB Who sends the rain that gives moisture to barren areas, areas where nothing has grown, so that grass begins to grow again? BSB BSB: to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?
28 UDB Does the rain have a father? Does the dew also have a father? BSB BSB: Does the rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?
29 UDB From whose womb does ice come in the winter? Who gives birth to the frost that comes down from the sky? BSB BSB: From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,
30 UDB In the winter, the water freezes and becomes as hard as a rock, and the surface of lakes becomes frozen. BSB BSB: when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?
31 UDB Job, can you fasten the chains that hold the stars together in the cluster of the Pleiades stars? Can you unfasten the cords of the stars in Orion? BSB BSB: Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?
32 UDB Can you tell the stars and planets when they should shine? Can you guide the stars in the groups of the Big Bear and the Little Bear? BSB BSB: Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear and her cubs?
33 UDB Do you know the laws that the stars must obey? Can you cause those same laws to rule everything here on the earth? BSB BSB: Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?
34 UDB Can you shout commands up to the clouds and make rain pour down on you? BSB BSB: Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?
35 UDB Can you cause flashes of lightning to come down and strike where you want them to strike? Do those flashes say to you, 'Where do you want us to strike?' BSB BSB: Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
36 UDB Who enables the clouds to know when they should cause rain to fall? BSB BSB: Who has put wisdom in the heart or given understanding to the mind?
37 UDB Who is skilled enough to be able to count the clouds? Who can tilt the containers of water in the sky to cause the rain to fall BSB BSB: Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens
38 UDB so that the dry ground becomes hard as the dry clods become wet and stick together? BSB BSB: when the dust hardens into a mass and the clods of earth stick together?
41 UDB Who provides dead animals for the raven, when its young are calling out to me for food, when they are so weak because of their lack of food that they stagger around in their nests? 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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