God speaks out of the storm
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📚✭Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, God asks a question
2 📚✭“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
God reveals Himself as the great Creator and Sustainer of the world
3 📚Now make yourself ready✭ like a man, for I will question you, and you shall answer me.
4 📚✭“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare it, if you have understanding.
5 📚Who determined its measurements, if you know? Or who stretched out the measuring line on it?
6 📚On what are its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone,
7 📚✭When the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God✭ shouted for joy?
8 📚“Or who shut in the sea with doors, when it burst out, as if coming from the womb,
9 📚When I made the clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling bands,
10 📚And fixed my boundaries for it, and set up its bolted doors,
11 📚And said, ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves will stop?’
12 📚✭Since the beginning of your days have you given commands to the morning, and caused the dawn to know its place,
13 📚That it might take hold of the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?
14 📚The earth takes shape like clay under a seal, and they stand out like a garment.
15 📚Their light is withheld from the wicked, and the upraised arm is broken.
16 📚“Have you entered the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
17 📚Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?
18 📚Have you comprehended the wide expanse of the earth? Declare it, if you know all this.
19 📚“Where is the way to the dwelling place of light? And where does darkness have its place,
20 📚That you may take it to its boundaries, and know the paths to its house?
21 📚Do you know because you were born then, and the number of your days is so great?
22 📚“Have you entered the treasuries of the snow? Or have you seen the treasuries of the hail,
23 📚Which I reserve for a time of trouble, for a day of battle and war?
24 📚What is the way to the place where light is diffused, or the east wind is scattered over the earth?
25 📚Who cuts a channel for the flood, or a path for the thunderstorm,
26 📚To bring rain on the earth where no one lives, on the wilderness where no one lives,
27 📚To satisfy the desolate wasteland, and to cause the tender plant to bud?
28 📚Does the rain have a father? Who begets the drops of dew?
29 📚From whose womb comes the ice? And who gives birth to the frost from the heavens?
30 📚Then the waters become hard as stone, and the surface of the deep is frozen.
31 📚“Can you bind the cluster of✭ the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?
32 📚Can you bring forth the constellations✭ in their seasons, or lead out the Bear✭ with its cubs?
33 📚Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Or set up its dominion on earth?
34 📚“Can you raise your voice to the clouds, so that an abundance of water may cover you?
35 📚Can you send out lightning flashes, so that they go and say to you, ‘Here we are!’
36 📚✭Who has put wisdom in the inner being, or who has given understanding to the heart?
37 📚Who can number the clouds by his wisdom? Or who can tilt the water jars of heaven,
38 When the dust becomes hard, and the clods stick together?
39 📚✭“Do you hunt the prey for the lion, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
40 📚When they crouch in their dens, or lie in wait in their lairs?
41 📚Who provides food for the raven, when its young ones cry out to God and wander around for lack of food?