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JOB
- 20Shall it be told Him that I would speak?
- Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?
- 21And now men see not the light which is bright in the skies;
- But the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.
- 22Out of the north cometh golden splendour,
- About God is terrible majesty.
- 23The Almighty, whom we cannot find out, is excellent in power,
- Yet to judgment and plenteous justice He doeth no violence.
- 24Men do therefore fear Him;
- He regardeth not any that are wise of heart.
38 Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said:
- 2Who is this that darkeneth counsel
- By words without knowledge?
- 3Gird up now thy loins like a man;
- For I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto Me.
- 4Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?
- Declare, if thou hast the understanding.
- 5Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest?
- Or who stretched the line upon it?
- 6Whereupon were the foundations thereof fastened?
- Or who laid the corner-stone thereof,
- 7When the morning stars sang together,
- And all the sons of God shouted for joy?
- 8Or who shut up the sea with doors,
- When it broke forth, and issued out of the womb;
- 9When I made the cloud the garment thereof,
- And thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
- 10And prescribed for it My decree,
- And set bars and doors,
- 11And said: 'Thus far shalt thou come, but no further;
- And here shall thy proud waves be stayed'?
- 12Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days began,
- And caused the dayspring to know its place;
- 13That it might take hold of the ends of the earth,
- And the wicked be shaken out of it?
- 14It is changed as clay under the seal;
- And they stand as a garment.
- 15But from the wicked their light is withholden,
- And the high arm is broken.
- 16Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea?
- Or hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?
- 17Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee?
- Or hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?
- 18Hast thou surveyed unto the breadths of the earth?
- Declare, if thou knowest it all.
- 19Where is the way to the dwelling of light,
- And as for darkness, where is the place thereof;
- 20That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof,
- And that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?
- 21Thou knowest it, for thou wast then born,
- And the number of thy days is great!
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