New English Translation

Job 38:31-41 New English Translation (NET)

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?

35. Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go?Will they say to you, ‘Here we are’?

36. Who has put wisdom in the heart,or has imparted understanding to the mind?

37. Who by wisdom can count the clouds,and who can tip over the water jars of heaven,

38. when the dust hardens into a mass,and the clumps of earth stick together?

39. “Do you hunt prey for the lioness,and satisfy the appetite of the lions,

40. when they crouch in their dens,when they wait in ambush in the thicket?

41. Who prepares prey for the raven,when its young cry out to Godand wander about for lack of food?