Job 38
1 Then Yahweh responded to Job, out of a storm, and said: —
and to answer LORD [obj] Job (from *QK) ([the] tempest *Qk) and to say
2 Who is it that darkeneth counsel, by words, without knowledge?
who? this to darken counsel in/on/with speech without knowledge
3 Gird, I pray thee—like a strong man—thy loins, that I may ask thee, and inform thou me:
to gird please like/as great man loin your and to ask you and to know me
4 Where wast thou, when I founded the earth? Tell, if thou knowest understanding!
where? to be in/on/with to found I land: country/planet to tell if to know understanding
5 Who set the measurements thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched out over it a line?
who? to set: make measurement her for to know or who? to stretch upon her line
6 Whereon were the pedestals thereof sunk? Or who laid the corner stone thereof; —
upon what? socket her to sink or who? to shoot stone corner her
7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
in/on/with to sing unitedness star morning and to shout all son: child God
8 Or [who] shut in, with double doors, the sea, when, bursting out of the womb, it came forth;
and to fence in/on/with door sea in/on/with to burst/come out he from womb to come out: produce
9 When I put a cloud as the garment thereof, and a thick cloud as the swaddling-band thereof;
in/on/with to set: make I cloud clothing his and cloud swaddling his
10 And brake off for it my boundary, and fixed a bar and double doors;
and to break upon him statute: allotment my and to set: make bar and door
11 And said—Hitherto, shalt thou come, and no further, —and, here, shalt thou set a limit to the majesty of thy waves?
and to say till here to come (in): come and not to add and here to set: appoint in/on/with pride heap: wave your
12 Since thy days [began] hast thou commanded the morning? or caused the dawn to know its place;
from day your to command morning (to know [the] dawn *QK) place his
13 That it might lay hold of the wings of the earth, and the lawless be shaken out of it?
to/for to grasp in/on/with wing [the] land: country/planet and to shake wicked from her
14 It transformeth itself like the clay of a seal, so that things stand forth like one arrayed;
to overturn like/as homer signet and to stand like clothing
15 That their light may be withdrawn from the lawless, and, the lofty arm, be shivered.
and to withhold from wicked light their and arm to exalt to break
16 Hast thou entered as far as the springs of the sea? Or, through the secret recesses of the resounding deep, hast thou wandered?
to come (in): come till spring sea and in/on/with search abyss to go: walk
17 Have the gates of death been disclosed to thee? And, the gates of the death-shade, couldst thou descry?
to reveal: reveal to/for you gate death and gate shadow to see: see
18 Hast thou well considered, even the breadths of the earth? Tell—if thou knowest it all!
to understand till breadth land: country/planet to tell if to know all her
19 Where then is the way, the light shall abide? And, the darkness, where then is its place?
where? this [the] way: direction to dwell light and darkness where? this place his
20 That thou mayest conduct it unto the bound thereof, and that thou mayest perceive the paths to its house.
for to take: take him to(wards) border: area his and for to understand path house: home his
21 Thou knowest, for, then, hadst thou been born! And, in number, thy days are many!
to know for then to beget and number day your many
22 Hast thou entered into the treasuries of the snow? And, the treasuries of the hail, couldst thou see?
to come (in): come to(wards) treasure snow and treasure hail to see: see
23 Which I have reserved for a time of distress, for the day of conflict and of war?
which to withhold to/for time distress to/for day battle and battle
24 Where then is the way the lightning is parted? The east wind spreadeth itself abroad over the earth.
where? this [the] way: direction to divide light to scatter east upon land: country/planet
25 Who hath cloven—for the torrent—a channel? Or a way for the lightning of thunders;
who? to divide to/for flood conduit and way: road to/for lightning voice: thunder
26 To give rain over the no-man’s land, the desert, where no son of earth is;
to/for to rain upon land: country/planet not man: anyone wilderness not man in/on/with him
27 To satisfy the wild and the wilderness, to cause to spring forth the meadow of young grass?
to/for to satisfy devastation and desolation and to/for to spring exit grass
28 Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
there to/for rain father or who? to beget drop dew
29 Out of whose womb, came forth the ice? And, the hoar-frost of the heavens, who hath given it birth?
from belly: womb who? to come out: come [the] ice and frost heaven who? to beget him
30 Like a stone, are the waters congealed, and, the face of the roaring deep, becometh firm!
like/as stone water to hide and face: surface abyss to capture
31 Canst thou bind the fetters of the Pleiades? Or, the bands of Orion, canst thou unloose?
to conspire bond Pleiades or cord Orion to open
32 Canst thou bring forth the signs of the Zodiac each in its season? Or, the Bear and her Young, canst thou lead?
to come out: send Mazzaroth in/on/with time his and Bear upon son: child her to lead them
33 Knowest thou, the statutes of the heavens? Or didst thou appoint his dominion over the earth?
to know statute heaven if: surely no to set: make rule his in/on/with land: country/planet
34 Canst thou lift up, to the thick cloud, thy voice, and the overflow of waters cover thee?
to exalt to/for cloud voice your and abundance water to cover you
35 Canst thou send forth the lightnings, so that they go, and say to thee, Behold us?
to send: depart lightning and to go: went and to say to/for you look! we
36 Who hath put—into cloud-forms—wisdom? Or who hath given—to the meteor—understanding?
who? to set: put in/on/with inner parts wisdom or who? to give: give to/for heart understanding
37 Who can count the thin clouds, in wisdom? And, the bottles of the heavens, who can empty out;
who? to recount cloud in/on/with wisdom and bag heaven who? to lie down: lay down
38 When the dust is cast into a clod, and the lumps are bound together?
in/on/with to pour: pour dust to/for casting and clod to cleave
39 Wilt thou hunt—for the Lioness—prey? Or, the craving of the Strong Lion, wilt thou satisfy;
to hunt to/for lion prey and living thing lion to fill
40 When they settle down in dens, abide in covert, for lying in wait?
for to bow in/on/with habitation to dwell in/on/with booth upon ambush
41 Who prepareth for the Raven his nourishment, —when his young ones—unto GOD—cry out, [when] they wander for lack of food?
who? to establish: prepare to/for raven food his for (youth his *QK) to(wards) God to cry to go astray to/for without food
