Job 38:1-4
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1Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:
2“Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?
3Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.
4Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.
5Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?
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The Berean Standard Bible rendered in the vocabulary of the ancient world — firmament, Sheol, ascension offering — with the translators' notes shown inline. About this translation
1Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:
2“Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?
- Cited in Job 42:3
3Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.
- Hebrew gird up your loins
- Cited in Job 42:4
4Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.
5Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?
King James Version +−
The 1611 translation, in its familiar form.
1Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
2Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
3Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
4Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
5Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
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