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Job 38 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:1 - And after Elius had ceased from speaking, the Lord spoke to Job through the whirlwind and clouds, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:2 - Who is this that hides counsel from me, and confines words in his heart, and thinks to conceal them from me?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:3 - Gird thy loins like a man; and I will ask thee, and do thou answer me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:4 - Where wast thou when I founded the earth? tell me now, if thou hast knowledge,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:5 - who set the measures of it, if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:6 - On what are its rings fastened? and who is he that laid the corner-stone upon it?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:7 - When the stars were made, all my angels praised me with a loud voice.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:8 - And I shut up the sea with gates, when it rushed out, coming forth out of its mother's womb.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:9 - And I made a cloud its clothing, and swathed it in mist.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:10 - And I set bounds to it, surrounding it with bars and gates.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:11 - And I said to it, Hitherto shalt thou come, but thou shalt not go beyond, but thy waves shall be confined within thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:12 - Or did I order the morning light in thy time; and did the morning star then first see his appointed place;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:13 - to lay hold of the extremities of the earth, to cast out the ungodly out of it?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:14 - Or didst thou take clay of the ground, and form a living creature, and set it with the power of speech upon the earth?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:15 - And hast thou removed light from the ungodly, and crushed the arm of the proud?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:16 - Or hast thou gone to the source of the sea, and walked in the tracks of the deep?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:17 - And do the gates of death open to thee for fear; and did the porters of hell quake when they saw thee?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:18 - And hast thou been instructed in the breadth of the whole earth under heaven? tell me now, what is the extent of it?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:19 - And in what kind of a land does the light dwell? and of what kind is the place of darkness?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:20 - If thou couldest bring me to their utmost boundaries, and if also thou knowest their paths;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:21 - I know then that thou wert born at that time, and the number of thy years is great.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:22 - But hast thou gone to the treasures of snow? and hast thou seen the treasures of hail?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:23 - And is there a store of them, for thee against the time of thine enemies, for the day of wars and battle?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:24 - And whence proceeds the frost? or whence is the south wind dispersed over the whole world under heaven?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:25 - And who prepared a course for the violent rain, and a way for the thunders;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:26 - to rain upon the land where there is no man, the wilderness, where there is not a man in it; so as to feed the untrodden and uninhabited land,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:27 - and cause it to send forth a crop of green herbs?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:28 - Who is the rain's father? and who has generated the drops of dew?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:29 - And out of whose womb comes the ice? and who has produced the frost in the sky,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:30 - which descends like flowing water? who has terrified the face of the ungodly?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:31 - And dost thou understand the band of Pleias, and hast thou opened the barrier of Orion?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:32 - Or wilt thou reveal Mazuroth in his season, and the evening star with his rays? Wilt thou guide them?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:33 - And knowest thou the changes of heaven, or the events which take place together under heaven?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:34 - And wilt thou call a cloud with thy voice, and will it obey thee with a violent shower of much rain?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:35 - And wilt thou send lightnings, and they shall go? and shall they say to thee, What is thy pleasure?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:36 - And who has given to women skill in weaving, or knowledge of embroidery?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:37 - And who is he that numbers the clouds in wisdom, and has bowed the heaven down to the earth?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:38 - For it is spread out as dusty earth, and I have cemented it as one hewn stone to another.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:39 - And wilt thou hunt a prey for the lions? and satisfy the desires of the serpents?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:40 - For they fear in their lairs, and lying in wait couch in the woods.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:41 - And who has prepared food for the raven? for its young ones wander and cry to the Lord, in search of food.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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