Job 38

1Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,Cross-references: Ex 19:16 · Deut 4:11 · Deut 5:22 · 1Ki 19:11 · 2Ki 2:1 · 2Ki 2:11 · +6 more

2“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?Cross-references: Job 12:3 · Job 23:4 · Job 24:25 · Job 26:3 · Job 27:11 · Job 34:35 · +3 more

3Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me!Cross-references: Ex 12:11 · 1Ki 18:46 · Job 13:15 · Job 13:22 · Job 23:3 · Job 31:35 · +3 more

4“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.Cross-references: Gen 1:1 · Ps 102:25 · Ps 104:5 · Prov 8:22 · Prov 8:29 · Prov 30:4 · +2 more

5Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?Cross-references: Job 11:9 · Job 28:25 · Ps 19:4 · Ps 78:55 · Prov 8:27 · Prov 8:29 · +5 more

6What were its foundations fastened on? Or who laid its cornerstone,Cross-references: Ex 26:18 · 1Sam 2:8 · Job 26:7 · Ps 24:2 · Ps 93:1 · Ps 104:5 · +6 more

7when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?Cross-references: Ezra 3:11 · Job 1:6 · Job 2:1 · Ps 104:4 · Zech 4:7 · Rev 2:28 · +2 more

8“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,Cross-references: Gen 1:9 · Job 38:10 · Ps 33:7 · Ps 104:8 · Prov 8:29 · Jer 5:22

9when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,Cross-references: Gen 1:2

10marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,Cross-references: Gen 1:9 · Gen 9:15 · Job 26:10 · Ps 33:7 · Ps 104:9 · Jer 5:22

11and said, ‘You may come here, but no further. Your proud waves shall be stopped here’?Cross-references: Job 1:22 · Job 2:6 · Ps 65:6 · Ps 76:10 · Ps 89:9 · Ps 93:3 · +6 more

12“Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place,Cross-references: Gen 1:5 · Job 8:9 · Job 15:7 · Job 38:4 · Job 38:21 · Ps 74:16 · +4 more

13that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?Cross-references: Ex 14:27 · Job 24:13 · Job 37:3 · Ps 19:4 · Ps 104:21 · Ps 104:35 · +1 more

14It is changed as clay under the seal, and presented as a garment.Cross-references: Ps 104:2 · Ps 104:6

15From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.Cross-references: Ex 10:21 · 2Ki 6:18 · Job 5:14 · Job 18:5 · Job 18:18 · Ps 10:15 · +6 more

16“Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?Cross-references: Job 26:5 · Ps 77:19 · Prov 8:24 · Jer 51:36

17Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?Cross-references: Job 3:5 · Job 12:22 · Ps 9:13 · Ps 23:4 · Ps 107:10 · Ps 107:14 · +4 more

18Have you comprehended the earth in its width? Declare, if you know it all.Cross-references: Job 28:24 · Ps 74:17 · Ps 89:11 · Isa 40:28 · Jer 31:37 · Rev 20:9

19“What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,Cross-references: Gen 1:3 · Gen 1:14 · Deut 4:19 · Job 38:12 · Ps 18:11 · Ps 104:20 · +8 more

20that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?Cross-references: Gen 10:19 · Gen 23:17 · Job 26:10

21Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!Cross-references: Job 15:7 · Job 38:4 · Job 38:12

22Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,Cross-references: Job 6:16 · Job 37:6 · Ps 33:7 · Ps 135:7

23which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?Cross-references: Ex 9:18 · Ex 9:24 · Josh 10:11 · Job 36:13 · Job 36:31 · Isa 30:30 · +3 more

24By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?Cross-references: Job 38:12 · Jonah 4:8 · Matt 24:27

25Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm,Cross-references: Job 28:26 · Job 36:27 · Job 37:3 · Ps 29:3

26to cause it to rain on a land where there is no man, on the wilderness, in which there is no man,Cross-references: Job 36:27 · Ps 104:10 · Ps 107:35 · Ps 147:8 · Isa 35:1 · Isa 41:18 · +3 more

27to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to grow?Cross-references: Ps 104:14 · Ps 107:35

28Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?Cross-references: Gen 27:28 · Gen 27:39 · Deut 33:13 · Deut 33:28 · 1Sam 12:17 · 2Sam 1:21 · +14 more

29Whose womb did the ice come out of? Who has given birth to the gray frost of the sky?Cross-references: Job 6:16 · Job 37:10 · Job 38:8 · Ps 147:16

30The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.Cross-references: Job 37:10

31“Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?Cross-references: Job 9:9 · Amos 5:8

32Can you lead the constellations out in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?Cross-references: 2Ki 23:5 · Job 9:9 · Job 38:31

33Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?Cross-references: Gen 1:16 · Gen 8:22 · Job 38:12 · Ps 119:90 · Ps 148:6 · Jer 31:35 · +1 more

34“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you?Cross-references: 1Sam 12:18 · Job 22:11 · Job 36:27 · Amos 5:8 · Zech 10:1 · James 5:18

35Can you send out lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?Cross-references: Ex 9:23 · Ex 9:29 · Lev 10:2 · Num 11:1 · Num 16:35 · 1Sam 22:12 · +7 more

36Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?Cross-references: Ex 31:3 · Ex 36:1 · Job 9:4 · Job 32:8 · Ps 51:6 · Prov 2:6 · +4 more

37Who can count the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the containers of the sky,Cross-references: Gen 8:1 · Gen 9:15 · Gen 15:5 · Ps 147:4

38when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together?

39“Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,Cross-references: Job 4:10 · Ps 34:10 · Ps 104:21 · Ps 145:15

40when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?Cross-references: Gen 49:9 · Num 23:24 · Num 24:9 · Job 37:8

41Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?Cross-references: Ps 104:27 · Ps 147:9 · Matt 6:26 · Luke 12:24