The LORD Challenges Job 2 ULT “Who{ is} this, darkening counsel by words without knowledge? BSB BSB: “Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?
3 ULT Now gird up your loins like a man, and I will question you and you will inform me. BSB BSB: Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.
5 ULT Who set its measurements? If you know! Or who stretched a line over it? BSB BSB: Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?
6 ULT On what were its foundations sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone, BSB BSB: On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone,
7 ULT in the singing together of the stars of the morning, and all the sons of God shouted? BSB BSB: while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8 ULT And{ who} enclosed the sea with doors in its issuing from the womb,{ when} it came out, BSB BSB: Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
9 ULT in my making the cloud its clothing and thick darkness its swaddling bands? BSB BSB: when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,
10 ULT And I broke upon it my boundary, and I set a bar and doors, BSB BSB: when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,
11 ULT and I said,‘Unto here you will come, but you will not continue, and here one has set for the pride of your waves.’ BSB BSB: and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?
12 ULT From your days, have you commanded the morning? Have you caused the dawn to know its place, BSB BSB: In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,
13 ULT for taking hold of the edges of the earth, and the wicked are shaken from it? BSB BSB: that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?
14 ULT It is changed like clay{ under} a seal, and they stand out like a garment. BSB BSB: The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.
15 ULT And from the wicked, their light is withheld, and their high arm is broken. BSB BSB: Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.
16 ULT Have you gone to the springs of the sea? Or have you walked around in the recesses of the deep? BSB BSB: Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?
17 ULT Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of deep darkness? BSB BSB: Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
18 ULT Have you given attention to the breadths of the earth? Declare, if you know all of it. BSB BSB: Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.
19 ULT Where{ is} this, the way{ to where} light dwells, and darkness, where{ is} this, its place, BSB BSB: Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,
20 ULT that you would take it to its territory, and that you would perceive the paths of its house? BSB BSB: so you can lead it back to its border? Do you know the paths to its home?
21 ULT You know, for you were born then, and the number of your days{ is} many! BSB BSB: Surely you know, for you were already born! And the number of your days is great!
22 ULT Have you entered into the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail, BSB BSB: Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,
23 ULT which I keep for a time of trouble, for a day of battle and war? BSB BSB: which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of war and battle?
24 ULT Where{ is} this, the way{ to where} the light is distributed, the east wind scatters over the earth? BSB BSB: In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?
25 ULT Who cut a channel for the downpour, or a way for the lightning of the thunder, BSB BSB: Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,
26 ULT to cause rain upon a land{ where} no man{ is}, a wilderness{ with} no man in it, BSB BSB: to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,
27 ULT to satisfy the waste and the desolation, and to cause the shoot of the grass to sprout? BSB BSB: to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?
28 ULT Is there a father to the rain? Or who begets the drops of dew? BSB BSB: Does the rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?
29 ULT From whose womb does ice come? And the frost of the skies, who bears it? BSB BSB: From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,
30 ULT As{ under} stone, the waters hide themselves, and the face of the deep freezes. BSB BSB: when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?
31 ULT Will you tie the bands of the Pleiades, or loose the cords of Orion? BSB BSB: Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?
32 ULT Will you bring out Mazzaroth in its time? Or will you guide the Bear with its sons? BSB BSB: Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear and her cubs?
33 ULT Do you know the statutes of the skies? If you will establish its rule over the earth? BSB BSB: Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?
34 ULT Will you raise your voice to the cloud and an abundance of waters will cover you? BSB BSB: Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?
35 ULT Will you send out lightning bolts and they will go, and they will say to you,‘Behold, us’? BSB BSB: Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
36 ULT Who has put wisdom in the clouds, or who has given understanding to the mist? BSB BSB: Who has put wisdom in the heart or given understanding to the mind?
37 ULT Who by wisdom will number the clouds? Or the water skins of the skies, who will tilt BSB BSB: Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens
38 ULT in the hardening of the dust into a mass, and the clods stick together? BSB BSB: when the dust hardens into a mass and the clods of earth stick together?
40 ULT when they crouch in their dens,{ when} they lie in wait in a shelter for an ambush? BSB BSB: when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait in the thicket?
41 ULT Who provides to the raven its food when its children cry out to God,{ when} they stagger without 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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