Job 38 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

The LORD Challenges Job

(Gen 1:1–10 )

Job 38:1

Job 38:1Then the LORD answered Job from the whirlwind:

Job 38:2

Job 38:2“Who is this that questions my wisdom
with such ignorant words?

Job 38:3

Job 38:3Brace yourself like a man,
because I have some questions for you,
and you must answer them.

Job 38:4

Job 38:4“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?
Tell me, if you know so much.

Job 38:5

Job 38:5Who determined its dimensions
and stretched out the surveying line?

Job 38:6

Job 38:6What supports its foundations,
and who laid its cornerstone

Job 38:7

Job 38:7as the morning stars sang together
and all the angels[fn] shouted for joy?

Job 38:8

Job 38:8“Who kept the sea inside its boundaries
as it burst from the womb,

Job 38:9

Job 38:9and as I clothed it with clouds
and wrapped it in thick darkness?

Job 38:10

Job 38:10For I locked it behind barred gates,
limiting its shores.

Job 38:11

Job 38:11I said, ‘This far and no farther will you come.
Here your proud waves must stop!’

Job 38:12

Job 38:12“Have you ever commanded the morning to appear
and caused the dawn to rise in the east?

Job 38:13

Job 38:13Have you made daylight spread to the ends of the earth,
to bring an end to the night’s wickedness?

Job 38:14

Job 38:14As the light approaches,
the earth takes shape like clay pressed beneath a seal;
it is robed in brilliant colors.[fn]

Job 38:15

Job 38:15The light disturbs the wicked
and stops the arm that is raised in violence.

Job 38:16

Job 38:16“Have you explored the springs from which the seas come?
Have you explored their depths?

Job 38:17

Job 38:17Do you know where the gates of death are located?
Have you seen the gates of utter gloom?

Job 38:18

Job 38:18Do you realize the extent of the earth?
Tell me about it if you know!

Job 38:19

Job 38:19“Where does light come from,
and where does darkness go?

Job 38:20

Job 38:20Can you take each to its home?
Do you know how to get there?

Job 38:21

Job 38:21But of course you know all this!
For you were born before it was all created,
and you are so very experienced!

Job 38:22

Job 38:22“Have you visited the storehouses of the snow
or seen the storehouses of hail?

Job 38:23

Job 38:23(I have reserved them as weapons for the time of trouble,
for the day of battle and war.)

Job 38:24

Job 38:24Where is the path to the source of light?
Where is the home of the east wind?

Job 38:25

Job 38:25“Who created a channel for the torrents of rain?
Who laid out the path for the lightning?

Job 38:26

Job 38:26Who makes the rain fall on barren land,
in a desert where no one lives?

Job 38:27

Job 38:27Who sends rain to satisfy the parched ground
and make the tender grass spring up?

Job 38:28

Job 38:28“Does the rain have a father?
Who gives birth to the dew?

Job 38:29

Job 38:29Who is the mother of the ice?
Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens?

Job 38:30

Job 38:30For the water turns to ice as hard as rock,
and the surface of the water freezes.

Job 38:31

Job 38:31“Can you direct the movement of the stars—
binding the cluster of the Pleiades
or loosening the cords of Orion?

Job 38:32

Job 38:32Can you direct the sequence of the seasons
or guide the Bear with her cubs across the heavens?

Job 38:33

Job 38:33Do you know the laws of the universe?
Can you use them to regulate the earth?

Job 38:34

Job 38:34“Can you shout to the clouds
and make it rain?

Job 38:35

Job 38:35Can you make lightning appear
and cause it to strike as you direct?

Job 38:36

Job 38:36Who gives intuition to the heart
and instinct to the mind?

Job 38:37

Job 38:37Who is wise enough to count all the clouds?
Who can tilt the water jars of heaven

Job 38:38

Job 38:38when the parched ground is dry
and the soil has hardened into clods?

Job 38:39

Job 38:39“Can you stalk prey for a lioness
and satisfy the young lions’ appetites

Job 38:40

Job 38:40as they lie in their dens
or crouch in the thicket?

Job 38:41

Job 38:41Who provides food for the ravens
when their young cry out to God
and wander about in hunger?

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NLT Footnotes

(38:7)

Hebrew the sons of God.

(38:14)

Or its features stand out like folds in a robe.

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