The LORD Challenges Job 2 WBS Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? BSB BSB: “Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?
3 WBS Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. BSB BSB: Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.
5 WBS Who hath laid the measures of it, 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 WBS Upon what are the foundations of it fastened? or who laid its corner stone; BSB BSB: On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone,
7 WBS 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 WBS 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 WBS When I made a cloud its garment, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it, BSB BSB: when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,
10 WBS 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 WBS And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed. BSB BSB: and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?
12 WBS Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the day-spring to know its place; BSB BSB: In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,
13 WBS That it might take hold of the ends of 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 WBS 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 WBS 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 WBS Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou 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 WBS Have the gates of death been opened to thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shades of death? BSB BSB: Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
18 WBS Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all. BSB BSB: Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.
19 WBS Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is its place, BSB BSB: Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,
20 WBS That thou shouldest take it to its bound, and that thou shouldest know the paths to its house? BSB BSB: so you can lead it back to its border? Do you know the paths to its home?
21 WBS Knowest thou it , because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great? BSB BSB: Surely you know, for you were already born! And the number of your days is great!
22 WBS Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, BSB BSB: Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,
23 WBS 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 WBS By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth? BSB BSB: In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?
25 WBS Who hath 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 WBS To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is ; on the wilderness in which there is no man; BSB BSB: to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,
27 WBS 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 WBS Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of the dew? BSB BSB: Does the rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?
29 WBS Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? BSB BSB: From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,
30 WBS 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 WBS Canst thou 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 WBS Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in its season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with its sons? BSB BSB: Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear and her cubs?
33 WBS Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set its dominion on the earth? BSB BSB: Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?
34 WBS Canst thou lift thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee? BSB BSB: Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?
35 WBS Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, 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 WBS Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart? BSB BSB: Who has put wisdom in the heart or given understanding to the mind?
37 WBS 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 WBS When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together? BSB BSB: when the dust hardens into a mass and the clods of earth stick together?
40 WBS 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 WBS Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry to God, they wander for want 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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