Good News Bible

Job 38:17-32 Good News Bible (GNB)

17. Has anyone ever shown you the gatesthat guard the dark world of the dead?

18. Have you any idea how big the world is?Answer me if you know.

19. Do you know where the light comes fromor what the source of darkness is?

20. Can you show them how far to go,or send them back again?

21. I am sure you can, because you're so oldand were there when the world was made!

22. Have you ever visited the storerooms,where I keep the snow and the hail?

23. I keep them ready for times of trouble,for days of battle and war.

24. Have you been to the place where the sun comes up,or the place from which the east wind blows?

25. Who dug a channel for the pouring rainand cleared the way for the thunderstorm?

26. Who makes rain fall where no one lives?

27. Who waters the dry and thirsty land,so that grass springs up?

28. Does either the rain or the dew have a father?

29. Who is the mother of the ice and the frost,

30. which turn the waters to stoneand freeze the face of the sea?

31. Can you tie the Pleiades togetheror loosen the bonds that hold Orion?

32. Can you guide the stars season by seasonand direct the Great and the Little Bear?