| 1. | Then the LORD addressed Job out of the storm and said: |
| 2. | Who is this that obscures divine plans with words of ignorance? |
| 3. | Gird up your loins now, like a man; I will question you, and you tell me the answers! |
| 4. | Where were you when I founded the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. |
| 5. | Who determined its size; do you know? Who stretched out the measuring line for it? |
| 6. | Into what were its pedestals sunk, and who laid the cornerstone, |
| 7. | While the morning stars sang in chorus and all the sons of God shouted for joy? |
| 8. | And who shut within doors the sea, when it burst forth from the womb; |
| 9. | When I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling bands? |
| 10. | When I set limits for it and fastened the bar of its door, |
| 11. | And said: Thus far shall you come but no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stilled! |
| 12. | Have you ever in your lifetime commanded the morning and shown the dawn its place |
| 13. | For taking hold of the ends of the earth, till the wicked are shaken from its surface? |
| 14. | The earth is changed as is clay by the seal, and dyed as though it were a garment; |
| 15. | But from the wicked the light is withheld, and the arm of pride is shattered. |
| 16. | Have you entered into the sources of the sea, or walked about in the depths of the abyss? |
| 17. | Have the gates of death been shown to you, or have you seen the gates of darkness? |
| 18. | Have you comprehended the breadth of the earth? Tell me, if you know all: |
| 19. | Which is the way to the dwelling place of light, and where is the abode of darkness, |
| 20. | That you may take them to their boundaries and set them on their homeward paths? |
| 21. | You know, because you were born before them, and the number of your years is great! |
| 22. | Have you entered the storehouse of the snow, and seen the treasury of the hail |
| 23. | Which I have reserved for times of stress, for the days of war and of battle? |
| 24. | Which way to the parting of the winds, whence the east wind spreads over the earth? |
| 25. | Who has laid out a channel for the downpour and for the thunderstorm a path |
| 26. | To bring rain to no man's land, the unpeopled wilderness; |
| 27. | To enrich the waste and desolate ground till the desert blooms with verdure? |
| 28. | Has the rain a father; or who has begotten the drops of dew? |
| 29. | Out of whose womb comes the ice, and who gives the hoarfrost its birth in the skies, |
| 30. | When the waters lie covered as though with stone that holds captive the surface of the deep? |
| 31. | Have you fitted a curb to the Pleiades, or loosened the bonds of Orion? |
| 32. | Can you bring forth the Mazzaroth in their season, or guide the Bear with its train? |
| 33. | Do you know the ordinances of the heavens; can you put into effect their plan on the earth? |
| 34. | Can you raise your voice among the clouds, or veil yourself in the waters of the storm? |
| 35. | Can you send forth the lightnings on their way, or will they say to you, "Here we are"? |
| 36. | Who puts wisdom in the heart, and gives the cock its understanding? |
| 37. | Who counts the clouds in his wisdom? Or who tilts the water jars of heaven |
| 38. | So that the dust of earth is fused into a mass and its clods made solid? |
| 39. | Do you hunt the prey for the lioness or appease the hunger of her cubs, |
| 40. | While they crouch in their dens, or lie in wait in the thicket? |
| 41. | Who provides nourishment for the ravens when their young ones cry out to God, and they rove abroad without food? |
