# Job 38

- Translation: Berean Standard Bible
- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).

## Text

[1] Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said: [2] “Who is this who obscures My counsel
by words without knowledge? [3] Now brace yourself like a man;
I will question you, and you shall inform Me. [4] Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?
Tell Me, if you have understanding. [5] Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know!
Or who stretched a measuring line across it? [6] On what were its foundations set,
or who laid its cornerstone, [7] while the morning stars sang together
and all the sons of God shouted for joy? [8] Who enclosed the sea behind doors
when it burst forth from the womb, [9] when I made the clouds its garment
and thick darkness its blanket, [10] when I fixed its boundaries
and set in place its bars and doors, [11] and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther;
here your proud waves must stop’? [12] In your days, have you commanded the morning
or assigned the dawn its place, [13] that it might spread to the ends of the earth
and shake the wicked out of it? [14] The earth takes shape like clay under a seal;
its hills stand out like the folds of a garment. [15] Light is withheld from the wicked,
and their upraised arm is broken. [16] Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea
or walked in the trenches of the deep? [17] Have the gates of death been revealed to you?
Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death? [18] Have you surveyed the extent of the earth?
Tell Me, if you know all this. [19] Where is the way to the home of light?
Do you know where darkness resides, [20] so you can lead it back to its border?
Do you know the paths to its home? [21] Surely you know, for you were already born!
And the number of your days is great! [22] Have you entered the storehouses of snow
or observed the storehouses of hail, [23] which I hold in reserve for times of trouble,
for the day of war and battle? [24] In which direction is the lightning dispersed,
or the east wind scattered over the earth? [25] Who cuts a channel for the flood
or clears a path for the thunderbolt, [26] to bring rain on a barren land,
on a desert where no man lives, [27] to satisfy the parched wasteland
and make it sprout with tender grass? [28] Does the rain have a father?
Who has begotten the drops of dew? [29] From whose womb does the ice emerge?
Who gives birth to the frost from heaven, [30] when the waters become hard as stone
and the surface of the deep is frozen? [31] Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades
or loosen the belt of Orion? [32] Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons
or lead out the Bear and her cubs? [33] Do you know the laws of the heavens?
Can you set their dominion over the earth? [34] Can you command the clouds
so that a flood of water covers you? [35] Can you send the lightning bolts on their way?
Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’? [36] Who has put wisdom in the heart
or given understanding to the mind? [37] Who has the wisdom to count the clouds?
Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens [38] when the dust hardens into a mass
and the clods of earth stick together? [39] Can you hunt the prey for a lioness
or satisfy the hunger of young lions [40] when they crouch in their dens
and lie in wait in the thicket? [41] Who provides food for the raven
when its young cry out to God
as they wander about for lack of food?

## Each verse

- Job 38:1 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/1
- Job 38:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/2
- Job 38:3 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/3
- Job 38:4 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/4
- Job 38:5 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/5
- Job 38:6 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/6
- Job 38:7 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/7
- Job 38:8 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/8
- Job 38:9 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/9
- Job 38:10 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/10
- Job 38:11 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/11
- Job 38:12 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/12
- Job 38:13 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/13
- Job 38:14 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/14
- Job 38:15 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/15
- Job 38:16 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/16
- Job 38:17 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/17
- Job 38:18 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/18
- Job 38:19 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/19
- Job 38:20 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/20
- Job 38:21 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/21
- Job 38:22 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/22
- Job 38:23 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/23
- Job 38:24 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/24
- Job 38:25 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/25
- Job 38:26 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/26
- Job 38:27 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/27
- Job 38:28 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/28
- Job 38:29 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/29
- Job 38:30 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/30
- Job 38:31 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/31
- Job 38:32 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/32
- Job 38:33 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/33
- Job 38:34 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/34
- Job 38:35 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/35
- Job 38:36 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/36
- Job 38:37 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/37
- Job 38:38 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/38
- Job 38:39 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/39
- Job 38:40 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/40
- Job 38:41 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/41