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Job 38 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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God Speaks Now to Job

(Gen 1:1–10 )

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:1 - And the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:2 - Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:3 - Get your strength together like a man of war; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:4 - Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:5 - By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:6 - On what were its pillars based, or who put down its angle-stone,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:7 - When the morning stars made songs together, and all the sons of the gods gave cries of joy?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:8 - Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:9 - When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:10 - Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:11 - And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:12 - Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:13 - So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:14 - It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:15 - And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:16 - Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:17 - Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:18 - Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:19 - Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:20 - So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:21 - No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:22 - Have you come into the secret place of snow, or have you seen the store-houses of the ice-drops,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:23 - Which I have kept for the time of trouble, for the day of war and fighting?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:24 - Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:25 - By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:26 - Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:27 - To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:28 - Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:29 - Out of whose body came the ice? and who gave birth to the cold mist of heaven?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:30 - The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:31 - Are the bands of the Pleiades fixed by you, or are the cords of Orion made loose?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:32 - Do you make Mazzaroth come out in its right time, or are the Bear and its children guided by you?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:33 - Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:34 - Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:35 - Do you send out the thunder-flames, so that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:36 - Who has put wisdom in the high clouds, or given knowledge to the lights of the north?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:37 - By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:38 - When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:39 - Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:40 - When they are stretched out in their holes, and are waiting in the brushwood?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:41 - Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food?
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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