38:1 Respondens autem Dominus Job de turbine, dixit :
38:1 Then the Lord answered Job out of a whirlwind, and said:
38:2 Quis est iste involvens sententias sermonibus imperitis ?
38:2 Who is this that wrappeth up sentences in unskilful words?
38:3 Accinge sicut vir lumbos tuos : interrogabo te, et responde mihi.
38:3 Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and answer thou me.
38:4 Ubi eras quando ponebam fundamenta terræ ? indica mihi, si habes intelligentiam.
38:4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? tell me if thou hast understanding.
38:5 Quis posuit mensuras ejus, si nosti ? vel quis tetendit super eam lineam ?
38:5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest or who hath stretched the line upon it?
38:6 Super quo bases illius solidatæ sunt ? aut quis demisit lapidem angularem ejus,
38:6 Upon what are its bases grounded? or who laid the corner stone thereof,
38:7 cum me laudarent simul astra matutina, et jubilarent omnes filii Dei ?
38:7 When the morning stars praised me together, and all the sons of God made a joyful melody?
38:8 Quis conclusit ostiis mare, quando erumpebat quasi de vulva procedens ;
38:8 Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb:
38:9 cum ponerem nubem vestimentum ejus, et caligine illud quasi pannis infantiæ obvolverem ?
38:9 When I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in a mist as in swaddling bands?
38:10 Circumdedi illud terminis meis, et posui vectem et ostia,
38:10 I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors:
38:11 et dixi : Usque huc venies, et non procedes amplius, et hic confringes tumentes fluctus tuos.
38:11 And I said: Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and here thou shalt break thy swelling waves.
38:12 Numquid post ortum tuum præcepisti diluculo, et ostendisti auroræ locum suum ?
38:12 Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place?
38:13 Et tenuisti concutiens extrema terræ, et excussisti impios ex ea ?
38:13 And didst thou hold the extremities of the earth shaking them, and hast thou shaken the ungodly out of it?
38:14 Restituetur ut lutum signaculum, et stabit sicut vestimentum :
38:14 The seal shall be restored as clay, and shall stand as a garment.
38:15 auferetur ab impiis lux sua, et brachium excelsum confringetur.
38:15 From the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the high arm shall be broken.
38:16 Numquid ingressus es profunda maris, et in novissimis abyssi deambulasti ?
38:16 Hast thou entered into the depths of the sea, and walked in the lowest parts of the deep?
38:17 Numquid apertæ sunt tibi portæ mortis, et ostia tenebrosa vidisti ?
38:17 Have the gates of death been opened to thee, and hast thou seen the darksome doors?
38:18 Numquid considerasti latitudinem terræ ? indica mihi, si nosti, omnia :
38:18 Hast thou considered the breadth of the earth? tell me, if thou knowest all things.
38:19 in qua via lux habitet, et tenebrarum quis locus sit :
38:19 Where is the way where light dwelleth, and where is the place of darkness?
38:20 ut ducas unumquodque ad terminos suos, et intelligas semitas domus ejus.
38:20 That thou mayst bring every thing to its own bounds, and understand the paths of the house thereof.
38:21 Sciebas tunc quod nasciturus esses, et numerum dierum tuorum noveras ?
38:21 Didst thou know then that thou shouldst be born? and didst thou know the number of thy days?
38:22 Numquid ingressus es thesauros nivis, aut thesauros grandinis aspexisti,
38:22 Hast thou entered into the storehouses of the snow, or hast thou beheld the treasures of the hail:
38:23 quæ præparavi in tempus hostis, in diem pugnæ et belli ?
38:23 Which I have prepared for the time of the enemy, against the day of battle and war?
38:24 Per quam viam spargitur lux, dividitur æstus super terram ?
38:24 By what way is the light spread, and heat divided upon the earth?
38:25 Quis dedit vehementissimo imbri cursum, et viam sonantis tonitrui,
38:25 Who gave a course to violent showers, or a way for noisy thunder:
38:26 ut plueret super terram absque homine in deserto, ubi nullus mortalium commoratur ;
38:26 That it should rain on the earth without man in the wilderness, where no mortal dwelleth:
38:27 ut impleret inviam et desolatam, et produceret herbas virentes ?
38:27 That it should fill the desert and desolate land, and should bring forth green grass?
38:28 Quis est pluviæ pater ? vel quis genuit stillas roris ?
38:28 Who is the father of rain? or who begot the drops of dew?
38:29 De cujus utero egressa est glacies ? et gelu de cælo quis genuit ?
38:29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the frost from heaven who hath gendered it?
38:30 In similitudinem lapidis aquæ durantur, et superficies abyssi constringitur.
38:30 The waters are hardened like a stone, and the surface of the deep is congealed.
38:31 Numquid conjungere valebis micantes stellas Pleiadas, aut gyrum Arcturi poteris dissipare ?
38:31 Shalt thou be able to join together the shining stars the Pleiades, or canst thou stop the turning about of Arcturus?
38:32 Numquid producis luciferum in tempore suo, et vesperum super filios terræ consurgere facis ?
38:32 Canst thou bring forth the day star in its time, and make the evening star to rise upon the children of the earth?
38:33 Numquid nosti ordinem cæli, et pones rationem ejus in terra ?
38:33 Dost thou know the order of heaven, and canst thou set down the reason thereof on the earth?
38:34 Numquid elevabis in nebula vocem tuam, et impetus aquarum operiet te ?
38:34 Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that an abundance of waters may cover thee?
38:35 Numquid mittes fulgura, et ibunt, et revertentia dicent tibi : Adsumus ?
38:35 Canst thou send lightnings, and will they go, and will they return and say to thee: Here we are?
38:36 Quis posuit in visceribus hominis sapientiam ? vel quis dedit gallo intelligentiam ?
38:36 Who hath put wisdom in the heart of man? or who gave the cock understanding?
38:37 Quis enarrabit cælorum rationem ? et concentum cæli quis dormire faciet ?
38:37 Who can declare the order of the heavens, or who can make the harmony of heaven to sleep?
38:38 Quando fundebatur pulvis in terra, et glebæ compingebantur ?
38:38 When was the dust poured on the earth, and the clods fastened together?
38:39 Numquid capies leænæ prædam, et animam catulorum ejus implebis,
38:39 Wilt thou take the prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite of her whelps,
38:40 quando cubant in antris, et in specubus insidiantur ?
38:40 When they couch in the dens and lie in wait in holes?
38:41 Quis præparat corvo escam suam, quando pulli ejus clamant ad Deum, vagantes, eo quod non habeant cibos ?
38:41 Who provideth food for the raven, when her young ones cry to God, wandering about, because they have no meat?