1And YHWH answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said:
2"Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
3Gird up now your loins like a man, and I will ask you, and you make known to me.
4Where were you when I founded the earth? Declare, if you know understanding.
5Who set its measures, for you know? Or who stretched the line upon it?
6On what were its bases sunk? Or who cast its cornerstone,
7when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8And who shut up the sea with doors, when it burst forth, came out of the womb;
9when I made the cloud its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band,
10and I broke for it my statute (choq), and set a bar and doors,
11and I said, 'To here you shall come, and no further; and here shall be set the pride of your waves'?
12Have you, since your days began, commanded (tzivvah) the morning? Have you caused the dawn to know its place,
13to take hold of the corners of the earth, that they might be shaken out of it?
14It is changed like clay under a seal, and they stand forth like a garment.
15And their light is withheld from them, and the uplifted arm is broken.
16Have you come to the springs of the sea? Or in the recesses of the deep have you walked?
17Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
18Have you understood the breadths of the earth? Declare, if you know it all.
19Where is this, the way where light dwells? And darkness, where is its place,
20that you should take it to its boundary, and that you should discern the paths to its house?
21You know, for then you were born, and the number of your days is great!
22Have you come to the treasuries of snow, or have you seen the treasuries of hail,
23which I have held back for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war?
24Where is this, the way by which the light is divided, or the east wind scattered over the earth?
25Who has cleft a channel for the flood, and a way for the lightning of thunders,
26to cause it to rain on a land with no man (ish), a wilderness with no man (adam) in it,
27to satisfy the desolate and the waste, and to cause to sprout the going forth of grass?
28Is there a father to the rain? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?
29Out of whose womb came the ice? And the frost of heaven, who has borne it?
30Like stone the waters hide themselves, and the face of the deep is frozen fast.
31Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, or loose the cords of Orion?
32Can you bring forth the constellations (Mazzaroth) in their season? And the Bear with her sons, can you guide them?
33Do you know the statutes (chuqqot) of the heavens? Can you set its dominion in the earth?
34Can you lift up your voice to the cloud, that an abundance of waters may cover you?
35Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go and say to you, 'Here we are'?
36Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?
37Who can number the clouds by wisdom? And the bottles of heaven, who can lay them down,
38when the dust (aphar) pours into a mass, and the clods cleave together?
39Will you hunt the prey for the lioness, and fill the appetite (chai) of the young lions,
40when they crouch in their dens, when they sit in the thicket for ambush?
41Who prepares for the raven its food, when its young cry to God, and wander about for lack of food?