JOB 38 : v 4-7 (GOD IS SPEAKING)

   Can you answer the questions I ask?

    How did I lay the foundation  for the earth?    Were you there?    

Doubtless you know who decided its length and width.     What supports the foundation?    

Who placed the cornerstone,  while morning stars sang,  and angels rejoiced?

    8When the ocean was born,    I set its boundaries  and wrapped it in blankets  of thickest fog.

    Then I built a wall around it,   locked the gates,

and said,    "Your powerful waves stop here!    They can go no farther."

 12Did you ever tell the sun to rise?    And did it obey?        

    18And how large is the earth?    Tell me, if you know!

    19Where is the home of light,    and where does darkness live?

   

 24From where does lightning leap,  or the east wind blow?     25Who carves out a path    for thunderstorms?    

   34Can you order the clouds  to send a downpour,     35or will lightning flash  at your command?

Who gives birth to the sleet  and the frost     that fall in winter,  

when streams and lakes  freeze solid as a rock?

 31Can you arrange stars in groups  such as Orion  and the Pleiades?    

Do you control the stars  or set in place the Plough and the Little Bear?

    33Do you know the laws that govern the heavens,    

and can you make them rule the earth?

    39When lions are hungry,  do you help them hunt?

    40Do you send an animal  into their den?

    41And when starving young ravens    

cry out to me for food,

   do you satisfy their hunger?

 19Did you give horses their strength   and the flowing hair along their necks?

20Did you make them able to jump like grasshoppers   

 or to frighten people  with their snorting?

    26Did you teach birds to fly south for the winter?

27Did you train eagles to build their nests on rocky cliffs,   29where they can look down to spot their next meal?    

30Then their young gather to feast  wherever the victim lies.

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Then Job replied to the LORD : Then Job replied to the LORD :

    "I know that "I know that YOU YOU can do all things; can do all things;

              no plan of yours can be thwarted. no plan of yours can be thwarted.