Job 38:1-41 GNT

[1] Then out of the storm the LORD spoke to Job. [2] Who are you to question my wisdom with your ignorant, empty words? [3] Now stand up straight and answer the questions I ask you. [4] Were you there when I made the world? If you know so much, tell me about it. [5] Who decided how large it would be? Who stretched the measuring line over it? Do you know all the answers? [6] What holds up the pillars that support the earth? Who laid the cornerstone of the world? [7] In the dawn of that day the stars sang together, and the heavenly beings shouted for joy. [8] Who closed the gates to hold back the sea when it burst from the womb of the earth? [9] It was I who covered the sea with clouds and wrapped it in darkness. [10] I marked a boundary for the sea and kept it behind bolted gates. [11] I told it, "So far and no farther! Here your powerful waves must stop." [12] Job, have you ever in all your life commanded a day to dawn? [13] Have you ordered the dawn to seize the earth and shake the wicked from their hiding places? [14] Daylight makes the hills and valleys stand out like the folds of a garment, clear as the imprint of a seal on clay. [15] The light of day is too bright for the wicked and restrains them from doing violence. [16] Have you been to the springs in the depths of the sea? Have you walked on the floor of the ocean? [17] Has anyone ever shown you the gates that guard the dark world of the dead? [18] Have you any idea how big the world is? Answer me if you know. [19] Do you know where the light comes from or what the source of darkness is? [20] Can you show them how far to go, or send them back again? [21] I am sure you can, because you're so old and were there when the world was made! [22] Have you ever visited the storerooms, where I keep the snow and the hail? [23] I keep them ready for times of trouble, for days of battle and war. [24] Have you been to the place where the sun comes up, or the place from which the east wind blows? [25] Who dug a channel for the pouring rain and cleared the way for the thunderstorm? [26] Who makes rain fall where no one lives? [27] Who waters the dry and thirsty land, so that grass springs up? [28] Does either the rain or the dew have a father? [29] Who is the mother of the ice and the frost, [30] which turn the waters to stone and freeze the face of the sea? [31] Can you tie the Pleiades together or loosen the bonds that hold Orion? [32] Can you guide the stars season by season and direct the Big and the Little Dipper? [33] Do you know the laws that govern the skies, and can you make them apply to the earth? [34] Can you shout orders to the clouds and make them drench you with rain? [35] And if you command the lightning to flash, will it come to you and say, "At your service"? [36] Who tells the ibis when the Nile will flood, or who tells the rooster that rain will fall? [37] Who is wise enough to count the clouds and tilt them over to pour out the rain, [38] rain that hardens the dust into lumps? [39] Do you find food for lions to eat, and satisfy hungry young lions [40] when they hide in their caves, or lie in wait in their dens? [41] Who is it that feeds the ravens when they wander about hungry, when their young cry to me for food?