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Show God's QuestionsWho is this that darkens my counsel?

After thirty-seven chapters of suffering and debate, God finally speaks—but not to explain Job's suffering. Instead, he asks Job questions about creation that reveal human limitation and God's incomprehensible greatness.

1

The Lord Answers from the Storm

[Job 38:1-2]

v.1, 2
2

Gird Up Your Loins

[Job 38:3]

v.3
3

Where Were You When the Earth Was Founded?

[Job 38:4]

v.4
4

Who Set Its Measurements?

[Job 38:5]

v.5
5

The Morning Stars Sang Together

[Job 38:6-7]

v.6, 7
6

Who Set a Boundary for the Sea?

[Job 38:8-11]

v.8, 9, 10, 11
7

Have You Ever Commanded the Morning to Break Forth?

[Job 38:12]

v.12
8

Have You Reached the Sources of the Sea?

[Job 38:16]

v.16
9

Have You Seen the Gates of Death?

[Job 38:17]

v.17
10

Where Does Light Dwell?

[Job 38:19]

v.19
11

The Storehouses of Snow and Hail

[Job 38:22]

v.22
12

Can You Bind the Pleiades?

[Job 38:31-32]

v.31, 32
Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm:
Who is this that darkens counsel with words empty of knowledge?
Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform me.
Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you have understanding.
Who set its measurements? Surely you know. Who stretched the measuring line across it?
On what were its footings sunk, or who laid its cornerstone,
while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Who shut the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band,
when I fixed my limit for it and set its bars and doors in place,
when I said, 'This far you may come and no farther; here your proud waves must halt'?
Have you ever commanded the morning or shown the dawn its place,
that it might seize the edges of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?
The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features stand out like a garment.
The wicked are denied their light, and the upraised arm is broken.
Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep?
Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of deepest darkness?
Have you grasped the vast expanse of the earth? Tell me, if you know it all.
Which is the way to the home of light, and where does darkness reside,
that you might take them to their own territory and know the paths to their dwellings?
Surely you know, for you were already born! The number of your days is so great!
Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or seen the storehouses of the hail,
which I have reserved for times of trouble, for days of battle and war?
What is the way to the place where light is parceled out, or where the east wind is scattered over the earth?
Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain, and a path for the thunderbolt,
to water a land where no one lives, a desert with no human in it,
to satisfy the waste and desolate ground and make the grass sprout there?
Does the rain have a father? Who fathered the drops of dew?
From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the frost of heaven,
when the waters harden like stone and the surface of the deep is frozen fast?
Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the cords of Orion?
Can you bring out the constellations in their season or lead out the Bear with her cubs?
Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up their rule over the earth?
Can you raise your voice to the clouds and cover yourself with a flood of water?
Do you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, 'Here we are'?
Who put wisdom in the hidden parts, or gave understanding to the mind?[^1] [^1]: The Hebrew words rendered *hidden parts* and *mind* are uncertain; they may instead refer to birds, as in "the ibis" and "the rooster."
Who has the wisdom to number the clouds? Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens,
when the dust hardens into a mass and the clods stick together?
Do you hunt the prey for the lioness and satisfy the hunger of the young lions,
when they crouch in their dens or lie in wait in the thicket?
Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?
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