The Book of Job
capítulo 38
verso 1
Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,
verso 2
“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
verso 3
Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me!
verso 4
“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.
verso 5
Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?
verso 6
What were its foundations fastened on? Or who laid its cornerstone,
verso 7
when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
verso 8
“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,
verso 9
when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,
verso 10
marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,
verso 11
and said, ‘You may come here, but no further. Your proud waves shall be stopped here’?
verso 12
“Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place,
verso 13
that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?
verso 14
It is changed as clay under the seal, and presented as a garment.
verso 15
From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.
verso 16
“Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
verso 17
Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
verso 18
Have you comprehended the earth in its width? Declare, if you know it all.
verso 19
“What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,
verso 20
that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?
verso 21
Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!
verso 22
Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
verso 23
which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
verso 24
By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?
verso 25
Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm,
verso 26
to cause it to rain on a land where there is no man, on the wilderness, in which there is no man,
verso 27
to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to grow?
verso 28
Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?
verso 29
Whose womb did the ice come out of? Who has given birth to the gray frost of the sky?
verso 30
The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.
verso 31
“Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?
verso 32
Can you lead the constellations out in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?
verso 33
Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?
verso 34
“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you?
verso 35
Can you send out lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
verso 36
Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?
verso 37
Who can count the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the containers of the sky,
verso 38
when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together?
verso 39
“Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
verso 40
when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?
verso 41
Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?
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