The Scriptures 1998

Job 38:7-24 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

7. when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of Elohim shouted for joy?

8. Or who enclosed the sea with doors, when it burst forth and came from the womb;

9. when I made the clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band;

10. and assigned for it My law, and set bars and doors;

11. and said, ‘This far you have come, but no farther, and here your proud waves stop?’

12. Have you ever commanded the morning, and caused the dawn to know its place,

13. to take hold of the ends of the earth, and the wrong be shaken out of it?

14. It is changed like clay under a seal, and they stand out like a garment.

15. And their light is withheld from the wrong, and the arm lifted up is broken.

16. Have you come to the sources of the sea? Or have you walked about in the recesses of the deep?

17. Were the gates of death revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

18. Have you understood the breadth of the earth? Declare, if you know it all.

19. Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And darkness, where is its place,

20. that you should take it to its boundary, and know the paths to its home?

21. Do you know? For you would have been born then, and the number of your days been many!

22. Have you entered into the storehouses of snow, or have you seen the storehouses of hail,

23. which I have kept for the time of distress, for the day of fighting and battle?

24. Where is the way that light is divided, or the east wind scattered over the earth?