Jó 38— comparação

1Então o SENHOR respondeu a Jó do meio do redemoinho:

2“Quem é este que obscurece o conselho

3Prepare-se como homem,

4“Onde você estava quando lancei os fundamentos da terra?

5Quem determinou as suas medidas, se é que você sabe?

6Sobre o que os seus fundamentos foram firmados?

7quando as estrelas da manhã cantavam juntas,

8“Ou quem encerrou o mar com portas,

9quando fiz das nuvens a sua vestimenta,

10tracei para ele o meu limite,

11e disse: ‘Você pode vir até aqui, mas não além disso.

12“Você já deu ordens à manhã em seus dias,

13para que ela pudesse agarrar as extremidades da terra,

14Ela se transforma como o barro sob o selo,

15Dos ímpios, a sua luz é retida.

16“Você já entrou nas nascentes do mar?

17As portas da morte já foram reveladas a você?

18Você já compreendeu a terra em sua largura?

19“Qual é o caminho para a morada da luz?

20para que você as conduza ao seu limite,

21Certamente você sabe, pois você já havia nascido então,

22Você já entrou nos depósitos da neve,

23que eu reservei para o tempo da angústia,

24Por qual caminho se distribui o relâmpago,

25Quem abriu um canal para as águas da enchente,

26para fazer chover sobre uma terra onde não há ninguém,

27para saciar a terra devastada e desolada,

28Acaso a chuva tem pai?

29De qual ventre saiu o gelo?

30As águas se tornam duras como pedra,

31“Você pode atar o aglomerado das Plêiades,

32Você pode fazer sair as constelações na sua estação?

33Você conhece as leis dos céus?

34“Você pode levantar a sua voz até as nuvens,

35Você pode enviar os relâmpagos, para que eles partam?

36Quem colocou sabedoria no íntimo?

37Quem pode contar as nuvens com sabedoria?

38quando o pó se transforma em uma massa,

39“Você pode caçar a presa para a leoa,

40quando eles se agacham em seus covis,

41Quem provê para o corvo a sua presa,

1Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,

2“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

3Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me!

4“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.

5Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?

6What were its foundations fastened on? Or who laid its cornerstone,

7when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

8“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,

9when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,

10marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,

11and said, ‘You may come here, but no further. Your proud waves shall be stopped here’?

12“Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place,

13that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?

14It is changed as clay under the seal, and presented as a garment.

15From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.

16“Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

17Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

18Have you comprehended the earth in its width? Declare, if you know it all.

19“What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

20that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?

21Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!

22Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,

23which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

24By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?

25Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm,

26to cause it to rain on a land where there is no man, on the wilderness, in which there is no man,

27to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to grow?

28Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?

29Whose womb did the ice come out of? Who has given birth to the gray frost of the sky?

30The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.

31“Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?

32Can you lead the constellations out in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?

33Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?

34“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you?

35Can you send out lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?

36Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?

37Who can count the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the containers of the sky,

38when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together?

39“Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

40when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?

41Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?