| 1. Then the Lord answered Job from the tempest and said, |
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א. |
| 2. "Who is this who gives dark counsel, with words, without knowledge? |
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ב. |
| 3. Now gird your loins like a man, and I will ask you and [you] tell Me. |
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ג. |
| 4. Where were you when I founded the earth? Tell if you know understanding. |
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ד. |
| 5. Who placed its measures if you know, or who extended a line over it? |
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ה. |
| 6. On what were its sockets sunk, or who laid its cornerstone? |
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ו. |
| 7. When the morning stars sing together, and all the angels of God shout? |
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ז. |
| 8. And [who] shut up the sea with doors when it broke forth and issued out of the womb? |
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ח. |
| 9. When I made the cloud its raiment and the dark cloud its wrapping? |
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ט. |
| 10. And broke for it My prescribed limit, and placed a bar and doors? |
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י. |
| 11. And said, 'Until here you may come but no further, and here [your strength] shall place your waves with pride.' |
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יא. |
| 12. In [all] your days, did you command the morning? Did you tell the dawn its place? |
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יב. |
| 13. To grasp the corners of the earth so that the wicked shall be shaken from it? |
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יג. |
| 14. The seal changes like clay and they shall stand like a garment. |
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יד. |
| 15. And their light shall be withheld from the wicked, and the high arm shall be broken. |
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טו. |
| 16. Have you come until the locks of the sea, and have you walked in the searching out of the deep? |
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טז. |
| 17. Have the gates of death been revealed to you, and do you see the gates of the shadow of death? |
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יז. |
| 18. Do you understand [everything] until the breadths of the earth? Tell if you know it all. |
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יח. |
| 19. Which is the way to [the place] where the light dwells, and as for darkness-where is its place? |
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יט. |
| 20. That you should take it to its border and that you should understand the paths of its house? |
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כ. |
| 21. You knew- for then you were born, and the number of your days would be many. |
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כא. |
| 22. Have you come to the treasures of snow, and did you see the treasures of hail? |
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כב. |
| 23. That I saved for a time of trouble, for a day of battle and war? |
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כג. |
| 24. Which way is the light parted, [which way] does the eastern one spread it over the earth? |
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כד. |
| 25. Who has separated a place for the hair and a way for the cloud of the thunderclaps? |
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כה. |
| 26. To rain on the earth where no man is; a desert in which there is no man. |
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כו. |
| 27. To sate darkness and desolation and to cause a source of grass to sprout. |
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כז. |
| 28. Has the rain a father, or who begot the waves of dew? |
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כח. |
| 29. From whose womb did the ice emerge, and the frost of the heaven-who bore it? |
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כט. |
| 30. Like a stone, the water hides, and the face of the deep is caught. |
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ל. |
| 31. Can you tie the chains of the Pleiades or loose the straps of Orion? |
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לא. |
| 32. Can you take out the constellations each in its time, and can you console Ayish for her children? |
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לב. |
| 33. Do you know the ordinances of heaven; can you place his dominion upon the earth? |
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לג. |
| 34. Can you lift up your voice to the cloud, or will an abundance of water cover you? |
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לד. |
| 35. Will you send forth lightning bolts so that they should go and say to you, 'Here we are'? |
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לה. |
| 36. Who placed wisdom in the inward parts or who gave the rooster understanding? |
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לו. |
| 37. Who charges the skies with wisdom, and who brings down the bottles of heaven? |
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לז. |
| 38. When the dust was poured into a mass and the clods cleaved together? |
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לח. |
| 39. Do you hunt the prey for the old lion, or do you fill the appetite of the young lions? |
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לט. |
| 40. When they crouch in their dens, they abide in the covert to lie in wait? |
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מ. |
| 41. Who prepares for the raven his prey, when his young cry out to God, they wander for lack of food? |
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מא. |
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