Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said :
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind ,
and said ,
Translation comparison
Job 38
41 aligned verses; 41 with wording or punctuation differences .
Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
KJV
King James Version
“
Who is this who
obscures
My
counsel by words without knowledge?
Who is this that
darkeneth
counsel by words without knowledge?
Now brace
yourself
like a man; I will question
you
, and you
shall
inform
Me.
Gird
up
now thy
loins
like a man; for
I will demand
of
thee
, and answer
thou
me.
Where were
you
when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell
Me
, if you
have
understanding.
Where wast
thou
when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare
, if thou
hast
understanding.
Who fixed
its
measurements
? Surely
you
know!
Or who stretched a
measuring
line across
it?
Who hath
laid
the
measures
thereof,
if
thou
knowest
? or who hath
stretched the
line upon
it?
On
what
were
its
foundations set,
or who laid its
cornerstone,
Whereupon
are
the
foundations thereof
fastened?
or who laid the
corner
stone
thereof;
while
the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
When
the morning stars sang together ,
and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Who enclosed
the sea behind
doors when it burst
forth from
the womb ,
Or
who shut
up
the sea with
doors ,
when it brake
forth ,
as
if
it
had
issued
out
of
the womb ?
when I made the clouds
its
garment and thick darkness its
blanket
,
When I made the cloud
the
garment thereof,
and thick darkness a
swaddlingband
for
it
,
when
I
fixed
its
boundaries
and set
in
place its
bars and doors,
And brake
up
for
it
my
decreed
place ,
and
set
bars and doors,
and I
declared:
‘You
may
come this
far
, but no farther;
here your
proud waves must
stop’
?
And said,
Hitherto
shalt
thou
come, but no further:
and
here shall
thy
proud waves be
stayed
?
In
your
days,
have
you
commanded the morning or
assigned
the dawn
its
place ,
Hast
thou
commanded the morning since
thy
days;
and
caused
the dayspring
to
know
his
place ;
that it might spread
to
the ends of the earth and
shake
the wicked out of it?
That it might take
hold
of
the ends of the earth ,
that
the wicked might
be
shaken
out of it?
The
earth
takes
shape
like
clay under
a
seal; its
hills
stand out
like
the
folds
of
a garment.
It
is
turned
as
clay to
the
seal; and
they
stand as
a garment.
Light
is
withheld
from the wicked, and their
upraised
arm is
broken.
And
from the wicked their
light
is
withholden
, and the
high
arm shall
be
broken.
Have
you
journeyed
to
the vents
of the sea or walked in the trenches
of the deep
?
Hast
thou
entered
into
the springs
of the sea ?
or hast
thou
walked in the search
of the depth
?
Have the gates of death been revealed
to
you
? Have
you
seen the gates
of the shadow of death?
Have the gates of death been opened
unto
thee
? or
hast
thou
seen the doors
of the shadow of death?
Have
you
surveyed
the extent
of the earth? Tell
Me,
if you
know
all this
.
Hast
thou
perceived
the breadth
of the earth? declare
if thou
knowest
it
all.
Where is the way to
the
home
of
light? Do
you
know
where
darkness resides
,
Where is the way where
light dwelleth
? and
as
for
darkness, where
is
the
place
thereof,
so
you
can
lead
it back
to its
border?
Do
you
know the paths to its
home
?
That
thou
shouldest
take
it to the
bound
thereof,
and
that
thou
shouldest
know the paths to the
house
thereof
?
Surely
you
know
, for
you
were
already
born !
And
the number of your
days is great !
Knowest
thou
it
, because
thou
wast
then
born ?
or
because
the number of thy
days is great ?
Have
you
entered the storehouses
of snow or observed
the storehouses
of hail,
Hast
thou
entered into
the treasures
of the
snow ?
or hast
thou
seen
the treasures
of the
hail,
which I hold
in
reserve
for
times
of trouble, for
the day of war
and
battle?
Which I have
reserved
against
the
time
of trouble, against
the day of battle and
war
?
In
which
direction
is the lightning
dispersed
, or
the east wind scattered
over
the earth?
By
what
way
is the light
parted
, which
scattereth
the east wind upon
the earth?
Who cuts
a channel
for the flood
or clears
a path
for the thunderbolt,
Who hath
divided
a watercourse
for the overflowing
of
waters,
or a way
for the lightning
of
thunder;
to bring
rain on a
barren
land
, on
a
desert
where no man lives
,
To cause
it
to
rain on the
earth
, where no man is;
on
the
wilderness
, wherein
there
is
no
man;
to satisfy the parched
wasteland
and make
it
sprout
with
tender grass
?
To satisfy the desolate
and waste
ground;
and
to
cause
the
bud
of
the
tender herb
to
spring
forth
?
Does
the rain have
a father? Who has
begotten the drops of dew?
Hath
the rain a father? or
who hath
begotten the drops of dew?
From
whose womb does
the ice emerge
? Who
gives
birth
to
the frost from
heaven,
Out
of
whose womb came
the ice? and
the hoary
frost of
heaven, who
hath
gendered
it?
when
the waters become
hard
as stone and the surface
of the deep is frozen ?
The waters are
hid
as with
a
stone ,
and the face
of the deep is frozen .
Can
you
bind the chains
of the
Pleiades or loosen
the belt
of Orion?
Canst
thou
bind the sweet
influences
of Pleiades ,
or loose
the bands
of Orion?
Can
you
bring forth the
constellations
in their
seasons
or lead
out
the
Bear
and
her
cubs
?
Canst
thou
bring forth Mazzaroth
in his
season?
or canst
thou
guide
Arcturus
with
his
sons
?
Do
you
know
the laws
of the
heavens
? Can
you
set their
dominion over
the earth?
Knowest
thou
the ordinances
of heaven
? canst
thou
set the
dominion thereof
in
the earth?
Can
you
command
the clouds so
that a
flood
of water
covers
you
?
Canst
thou
lift
up
thy
voice
to
the clouds ,
that abundance
of waters
may
cover
thee
?
Can
you
send the
lightning
bolts
on
their
way?
Do
they report
to
you
, ‘
Here we are ’
?
Canst
thou
send lightnings,
that
they may
go
and
say
unto
thee
, Here we are?
Who has
put wisdom in the heart
or given understanding to the mind
?
Who hath
put wisdom in the inward
parts?
or who
hath
given understanding to the heart
?
Who has
the
wisdom
to
count
the clouds? Or who can tilt
the water
jars
of the
heavens
Who can
number
the clouds in
wisdom
? or who can stay
the bottles
of heaven,
when the dust hardens
into a
mass
and the clods of
earth
stick
together?
When the dust groweth
into hardness,
and the clods cleave
fast
together?
Can
you
hunt the prey for a
lioness
or satisfy
the hunger
of young lions
Wilt
thou
hunt the prey for the
lion?
or fill
the appetite
of the
young lions ,
when they crouch
in their dens and lie in wait in
the
thicket
?
When they couch
in their dens ,
and abide
in
the
covert
to
lie in wait?
Who provides
food
for the raven when its
young cry out
to
God as
they wander about
for lack of food?
Who provideth
for the raven his
food?
when his
young ones
cry unto
God ,
they wander for lack of meat.
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