New English Translation

Job 38:19-34 New English Translation (NET)

19. “In what direction does light reside,and darkness, where is its place,

20. that you may take them to their bordersand perceive the pathways to their homes?

21. You know, for you were born before them;and the number of your days is great!

22. Have you entered the storehouse of the snow,or seen the armory of the hail,

23. which I reserve for the time of trouble,for the day of war and battle?

24. In what direction is lightning dispersed,or the east winds scattered over the earth?

25. Who carves out a channel for the heavy rains,and a path for the rumble of thunder,

26. to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land,a desert where there are no human beings,

27. to satisfy a devastated and desolate land,and to cause it to sprout with vegetation?

28. Does the rain have a father,or who has fathered the drops of the dew?

29. From whose womb does the ice emerge,and the frost from the sky, who gives birth to it,

30. when the waters become hard like stone,when the surface of the deep is frozen solid?

31. Can you tie the bands of the Pleiades,or release the cords of Orion?

32. Can you lead out the constellations in their seasons,or guide the Bear with its cubs?

33. Do you know the laws of the heavens,or can you set up their rule over the earth?

34. Can you raise your voice to the cloudsso that a flood of water covers you?