| International Standard Version | New International Version |
| 1The LORD responded to Job from the whirlwind and said: | 1Then the LORD spoke to Job out of the storm. He said: |
| 2"Who is this who keeps darkening my counsel without knowing what he's talking about? | 2"Who is this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge? |
| 3Stand up like a man! I'll ask you some questions, and you give me some answers!" | 3Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me. |
| 4"Where were you when I laid the foundation of my earth? Tell me, since you're so informed! | 4"Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand. |
| 5Who set its measurement? Am I to assume you know? Who stretched a boundary line over it? | 5Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? |
| 6On what were its bases set? Who laid its corner stone | 6On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone-- |
| 7while the morning stars sang together and all the divine beings shouted joyfully? | 7while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy? |
| 8"Who enclosed the sea with limits when it gushed out of the womb, | 8"Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb, |
| 9when I made clouds to be its clothes and thick darkness its swaddling blanket, | 9when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness, |
| 10when I proscribed a boundary for it, set in place bars and doors for it; | 10when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place, |
| 11and said, 'You may come only this far and no more. Your majestic waves will stop here.'? | 11when I said, 'This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt'? |
| 12"Have you ever commanded the morning at any time during your life? Do you know where the dawn lives, | 12"Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place, |
| 13where it seizes the edge of the earth and shakes the wicked out of it? | 13that it might take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it? |
| 14Like clay is molded by a signet ring, the earth's hills and valleys then stand out like the colors of a garment. | 14The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features stand out like those of a garment. |
| 15Then from the wicked their light is withheld and their upraised arm is broken. | 15The wicked are denied their light, and their upraised arm is broken. |
| 16"Have you been to the source of the sea and walked about in the recesses of the deepest ocean? | 16"Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep? |
| 17Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness? | 17Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness? |
| 18Do you understand the breadth of the earth? Tell me, since you know it all! | 18Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this. |
| 19"Where is the road to where the light lives? Or where does the darkness live? | 19"What is the way to the abode of light? And where does darkness reside? |
| 20Can you take it to its homeland, since you know the path to his house? | 20Can you take them to their places? Do you know the paths to their dwellings? |
| 21You should know! After all, you had been born back then, so the number of your days is great! | 21Surely you know, for you were already born! You have lived so many years! |
| 22"Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen where the hail is stored, | 22"Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail, |
| 23which I've reserved for the tribulation to come, for the day of battle and war? | 23which I reserve for times of trouble, for days of war and battle? |
| 24Where is the lightning diffused or the east wind scattered around the earth? | 24What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed, or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth? |
| 25"Who cuts canals for storm floods, and paths for the lightning and thunder, | 25Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain, and a path for the thunderstorm, |
| 26to bring rain upon a land without inhabitants, a desert in which no human beings live, | 26to water a land where no one lives, an uninhabited desert, |
| 27to satisfy a desolate and devastated desert, causing it to sprout vegetation? | 27to satisfy a desolate wasteland and make it sprout with grass? |
| 28"Does the rain have a father? Who fathered the dew? | 28Does the rain have a father? Who fathers the drops of dew? |
| 29Whose womb brings forth the ice? Who gives birth to frost out of an empty sky, | 29From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens |
| 30when water solidifies like stone and the surface of the deepest sea freezes? | 30when the waters become hard as stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen? |
| 31"Can you bind the chains of Pleiades or loosen the cords of Orion? | 31"Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades? Can you loosen Orion's belt? |
| 32Can you bring out constellations in their season? Can you guide the Bear with her cubs? | 32Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear with its cubs? |
| 33Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you regulate their authority over the earth? | 33Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up God's dominion over the earth? |
| 34"Can you call out to the clouds, so that abundant water drenches you? | 34"Can you raise your voice to the clouds and cover yourself with a flood of water? |
| 35Can you command the lightning, so that it goes forth and calls to you, 'Look at us!' | 35Do you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, 'Here we are'? |
| 36"Who sets wisdom within you, or imbues your mind with understanding? | 36Who gives the ibis wisdom or gives the rooster understanding? |
| 37Who has the wisdom to be able to count the clouds, or to empty the water jars of heaven, | 37Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens |
| 38when dust dries into a mass and then breaks apart into clods? | 38when the dust becomes hard and the clods of earth stick together? |
| 39"Can you hunt prey for the lioness to satisfy young lions | 39"Do you hunt the prey for the lioness and satisfy the hunger of the lions |
| 40when they crouch in their dens and lie in ambush in their lairs? | 40when they crouch in their dens or lie in wait in a thicket? |
| 41Who prepares food for the raven, when its offspring cry out to God as they wander for lack of food?" | 41Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food? |
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