19 Научи нас, что сказать Ему? Мы в этой тьме ничего не можем сообразить.

20 Будет ли возвещено Ему, что я говорю? Сказал ли кто, что сказанное доносится Ему?

21 Теперь не видно яркого света в облаках, но пронесется ветер и расчистит их.

22 Светлая погода приходит от севера, и окрест Бога страшное великолепие.

23 Вседержитель! мы не постигаем Его. Он велик силою, судом и полнотою правосудия. Он никого не угнетает.

24 Посему да благоговеют пред Ним люди, и да трепещут пред Ним все мудрые сердцем!

Глава 38

1 And the Lord answered Job out of the storm, saying,

2 Who is this that darkens Providence with words without meaning?

3 Thou shalt now gird up thy loins as a man: I will inquire of thee, and thou shalt explain unto me:

4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me if you know.

5 Who has measured it, if you know? Or who stretched the rope along it?

6 On what are its foundations established, or who laid its cornerstone,

7 With the general rejoicing of the morning stars, when all the sons of God shouted for joy?

8 Who shut the sea with gates, when it was poured out, came out as it were out of the womb,

9 When I made the clouds his garment, and the darkness his swaddling clothes,

10 And he confirmed my decree unto him, and set up bars and gates,

11 And he said, Hitherto thou shalt come, and thou shalt not pass over, and here is the limit of thy haughty waves?

12 Have you ever given orders to the morning in your life, and have you shown the dawn its place,

13 that it may encompass the ends of the earth, and shake off the wicked from it,

14 that the earth may be changed like clay under a seal, and become like a garment of many colors,

15 And that their light should be taken away from the wicked, and their bold hand broken?

16 Hast thou descended into the depths of the sea, and hast thou entered into the search of the deep?

17 Have the gates of death been opened unto thee, and hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?

18 Have you surveyed the breadth of the earth? Explain if you know all this.

19 Where is the way to the dwelling place of light, and where is the place of darkness?

20 Thou hast certainly come to her borders, and knowest the paths to her house.

21 Thou knowest this, because thou wast already born then, and the number of thy days is very great.