Job 38:4-30
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4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
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5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
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6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
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7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
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8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
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9 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
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10 And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
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11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
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12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
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13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
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14 It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.
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15 And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.
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16 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?
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17 Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
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18 Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.
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19 Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
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20 That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?
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21 Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great?
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22 Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,
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23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
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24 By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?
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25 Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;
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26 To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;
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27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
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28 Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
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29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
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30 The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.