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37.19 :Shall it be told Him that I would speak?
 * Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?


 * And now men see not the light which is bright in the skies;
 * But the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.
 * Out of the north cometh golden splendour,
 * About God is terrible majesty.
 * The Almighty, whom we cannot find out, is excellent in power,
 * Yet to judgment and plenteous justice He doeth no violence.
 * Men do therefore fear Him;
 * He regardeth not any that are wise of heart.

Then the answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said:


 * Who is this that darkeneth counsel
 * By words without knowledge?
 * Gird up now thy loins like a man;
 * For I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto Me.


 * Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?
 * Declare, if thou hast the understanding.
 * Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest?
 * Or who stretched the line upon it?
 * Whereupon were the foundations thereof fastened?
 * Or who laid the corner-stone thereof,
 * When the morning stars sang together,
 * And all the sons of God shouted for joy?


 * Or who shut up the sea with doors,
 * When it broke forth, and issued out of the womb;
 * When I made the cloud the garment thereof,
 * And thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
 * And prescribed for it My decree,
 * And set bars and doors,
 * And said: 'Thus far shalt thou come, but no further;
 * And here shall thy proud waves be stayed'?


 * Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days began,
 * And caused the dayspring to know its place;
 * That it might take hold of the ends of the earth,
 * And the wicked be shaken out of it?
 * It is changed as clay under the seal;
 * And they stand as a garment.
 * But from the wicked their light is withholden,
 * And the high arm is broken.


 * Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea?
 * Or hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?
 * Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee?
 * Or hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?
 * Hast thou surveyed unto the breadths of the earth?
 * Declare, if thou knowest it all.


 * Where is the way to the dwelling of light,
 * And as for darkness, where is the place thereof;
 * That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof,
 * And that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?
 * Thou knowest it, for thou wast then born,
 * And the number of thy days is great!