Job 38 (NET)

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Job 38:1¹Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 40:6 1 Kgs 19:11 2 Kgs 2:11 Exod 19:16-19 Job 37:1-2 2 Kgs 2:1 Deut 4:11-12 Ezek 1:4 Job 37:9 Nah 1:3

Job 38:2²“Who is this who darkens counsel with words without knowledge?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 42:3 1 Tim 1:7 Job 35:16 Job 34:35 Job 12:3 Job 23:4-5 Job 24:25 Job 27:11 Job 26:3

Job 38:3³Get ready for a difficult task like a man; I will question you and you will inform me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 40:7 Exod 12:11 Jer 1:17 1 Kgs 18:46 1 Pet 1:13 Job 13:15 Job 13:22 Job 23:3-7 Job 31:35-37

Job 38:4⁴“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you possess understanding.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 104:5 Heb 1:10 Prov 30:4 Heb 1:2 Gen 1:1 Ps 102:25 Prov 8:22 Prov 8:29-30

Job 38:5⁵Who set its measurements—if you know— or who stretched a measuring line across it?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 40:12 Job 11:9 Zech 2:1-2 2 Cor 10:16 Isa 34:11 Isa 40:22 Job 28:25 Prov 8:27 Ps 19:4 Ps 78:55

Job 38:6⁶On what were its bases set, or who laid its cornerstone—Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 26:7 Ps 104:5 Ps 93:1 2 Pet 3:5 Isa 28:16 Ps 118:22 Zech 12:1 Eph 2:20-21 Exod 26:18-25 Ps 144:12

Job 38:7⁷when the morning stars sang in chorus, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 5:11 Job 1:6 Ezra 3:11-12 Rev 22:16 Job 2:1 Ps 104:4 Rev 2:28 Zech 4:7

Job 38:8⁸“Who shut up the sea with doors when it burst forth, coming out of the womb,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 1:9 Jer 5:22 Prov 8:29 Ps 104:8-9 Ps 33:7 Job 38:10

Job 38:9⁹when I made the storm clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 1:2

Job 38:10¹⁰when I prescribed its limits, and set in place its bolts and doors,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 5:22 Ps 104:9 Job 26:10 Ps 33:7 Gen 1:9-10 Gen 9:15

Job 38:11¹¹when I said, ‘To here you may come and no farther, here your proud waves will be confined’?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 89:9 Prov 8:29 Mark 4:39-41 Ps 65:6-7 Luke 8:32-33 Isa 27:8 Job 2:6 Ps 93:3-4 Job 1:22 Ps 76:10

Job 38:12¹²Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, or made the dawn know its place,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 74:16 Ps 148:3-5 Gen 1:5 Job 8:9 2 Pet 1:19 Luke 1:78 Ps 136:7-8 Job 15:7 Job 38:21 Job 38:4

Job 38:13¹³that it might seize the corners of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 37:3 Ps 104:35 Exod 14:27 Job 24:13-17 Ps 104:21-22 Ps 139:9-12 Ps 19:4-6

Job 38:14¹⁴The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features are dyed like a garment.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 104:6 Ps 104:2

Job 38:15¹⁵Then from the wicked the light is withheld, and the arm raised in violence is broken.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 10:15 Job 18:5 Ps 37:17 Prov 4:19 Exod 10:21-23 Ezek 30:22 Job 18:18 Job 5:14 2 Kgs 6:18 Isa 8:21-22

Job 38:16¹⁶Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea, or walked about in the recesses of the deep?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 8:24 Job 26:5-6 Ps 77:19 Jer 51:36

Job 38:17¹⁷Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of deepest darkness?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 9:13 Ps 107:18 Job 3:5 Job 12:22 Ps 107:10 Ps 107:14 Ps 23:4 Amos 5:8 Matt 4:16 Ps 116:3

Job 38:18¹⁸Have you considered the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know it all.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 31:37 Ps 89:11-12 Rev 20:9 Isa 40:28 Job 28:24 Ps 74:17

Job 38:19¹⁹“In what direction does light reside, and darkness, where is its place,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 32:8 Amos 4:13 Deut 4:19 Gen 1:14-18 Gen 1:3-4 Isa 45:7 Job 38:12-13 Matt 27:45 Ps 104:20 Ps 105:28

Job 38:20²⁰that you may take them to their borders and perceive the pathways to their homes?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 10:19 Gen 23:17 Job 26:10

Job 38:21²¹You know, for you were born before them; and the number of your days is great!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 15:7 Job 38:12 Job 38:4

Job 38:22²²Have you entered the storehouse of the snow, or seen the armory of the hail,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 37:6 Ps 135:7 Job 6:16 Ps 33:7

Job 38:23²³which I reserve for the time of trouble, for the day of war and battle?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Josh 10:11 Isa 30:30 Exod 9:18 Ezek 13:11-13 Job 36:13 Rev 16:21 Exod 9:24 Job 36:31 Matt 7:27

Job 38:24²⁴In what direction is lightning dispersed, or the east winds scattered over the earth?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 38:12-13 Jonah 4:8 Matt 24:27

Job 38:25²⁵Who carves out a channel for the heavy rains, and a path for the rumble of thunder,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 28:26 Ps 29:3-10 Job 36:27-28 Job 37:3-6

Job 38:26²⁶to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a wilderness where there are no human beings,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 14:22 Heb 6:7-8 Ps 107:35 Isa 35:1-2 Isa 43:19-20 Job 36:27 Ps 104:10-14 Ps 147:8-9 Isa 41:18-19

Job 38:27²⁷to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and to cause it to sprout with vegetation?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 107:35 Ps 104:14

Job 38:28²⁸Does the rain have a father, or who has fathered the drops of the dew?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 14:22 Ps 147:8 Jer 10:13 Prov 3:20 1 Kgs 17:1 1 Sam 12:17-18 2 Sam 1:21 Amos 4:7 Deut 33:13 Deut 33:28

Job 38:29²⁹From whose womb does the ice emerge, and the frost from the sky, who gives birth to it,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 147:16-17 Job 37:10 Job 38:8 Job 6:16

Job 38:30³⁰when the waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen solid?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 37:10

Job 38:31³¹Can you tie the bands of the Pleiades, or release the cords of Orion?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Amos 5:8 Job 9:9

Job 38:32³²Can you lead out the constellations in their seasons, or guide the Bear with its cubs?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 38:31 2 Kgs 23:5 Job 9:9

Job 38:33³³Do you know the laws of the heavens, or can you set up their rule over the earth?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 31:35-36 Gen 8:22 Gen 1:16 Jer 33:25 Job 38:12-13 Ps 148:6 Ps 119:90-91

Job 38:34³⁴Can you raise your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 22:11 1 Sam 12:18 Amos 5:8 Jas 5:18 Job 36:27-28 Zech 10:1

Job 38:35³⁵Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go? Will they say to you, ‘Here we are’?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 36:32 Job 37:3 1 Sam 22:12 2 Kgs 1:10 2 Kgs 1:14 Exod 9:23-25 Exod 9:29 Isa 6:8 Isa 65:1 Lev 10:2

Job 38:36³⁶Who has put wisdom in the heart, or has imparted understanding to the mind?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 32:8 Ps 51:6 Eccl 2:26 Prov 2:6 Jas 1:5 Exod 31:3 Job 9:4 Jas 1:17 Exod 36:1-2 Isa 28:26

Job 38:37³⁷Who by wisdom can count the clouds, and who can tip over the water jars of heaven,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 147:4 Gen 15:5 Gen 8:1 Gen 9:15

Job 38:38³⁸when the dust hardens into a mass, and the clumps of earth stick together?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Job 38:39³⁹“Do you hunt prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite of the lionsCopy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 104:21 Job 4:10-11 Ps 145:15-16 Ps 34:10

Job 38:40⁴⁰when they crouch in their dens, when they wait in ambush in the thicket?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 37:8 Gen 49:9 Num 23:24 Num 24:9

Job 38:41⁴¹Who prepares prey for the raven, when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 12:24 Matt 6:26 Ps 147:9 Ps 104:27-28

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