[1] Then יהוה answered Iyoḇ out of the whirlwind, and said, [2] “Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge? [3] Now gird up your loins like a man, and I ask you, and you answer Me.
[4] Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding. [5] Who set its measurements, if you know? Or who stretched the line upon it? [6] Upon what were its foundations sunk? Or who laid its corner-stone,
[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? [25] Who has cleft a channel for the overflowing water, or a way for the thunderclaps, [26] to make rain fall on land where no one is, a wilderness in which there is no man; [27] to satisfy the wild and waste places, and to make the seeds of grass to sprout? [28] Does the rain have a father? Or who has brought forth the drops of dew? [29] From whose belly comes the ice? And who gave birth to the frost of the heavens? [30] The waters harden like stone, and the surface of the deep is frozen. [31] Do you bind the bands of Kimah, or loosen the cords of Kesil? [32] Do you bring out the constellations in its season? Or do you lead the Bear with its sons? [33] Do you know the laws of the heavens? Or do you set their rule over the earth? [34] Do you lift up your voice to the clouds, so that floods of water cover you? [35] Do you send out lightnings, and they go and say to you, ‘Here we are!’? [36] Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the heart? [37] Who has wisdom to count the clouds, or to tip over the bottles of the heavens, [38] when the dust hardens in clumps, and the clods cling together? [39] Do you hunt the prey for the lion, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions, [40] when they crouch in dens, sit in the cover of their hiding place? [41] Who provides food for the raven, when its young ones cry to Ěl, and wander about without food?
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