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Job: 38

38:30The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

38:30And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah.

38:30And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the brasen altar, and the brasen grate for it, and all the vessels of the altar,

38:31And the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets of the court gate, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about.

38:31Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

38:32Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?

38:33Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?

38:34Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?

38:35Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?

38:36Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?

38:37Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,

38:38When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?

38:39Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,

38:40When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?

38:41Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.

39:1And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.

39:1Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:

39:1At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.

39:1Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

39:1And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made cloths of service, to do service in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as the LORD commanded Moses.

39:1In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.

39:1(To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.) I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.

39:2And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.

39:2And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:

39:2And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

39:2Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

39:2And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

39:2I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

39:2And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.

39:3Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from Babylon.

39:3My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,

39:3And his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand.

39:3And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, even Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon.

39:3They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.

39:3And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.

39:3And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.

39:4Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.

39:4And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.

39:4Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.

39:4They made shoulderpieces for it, to couple it together: by the two edges was it coupled together.

39:4Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.

39:4LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.

39:4And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.

39:5But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.

39:5Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD of hosts:

39:5And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the LORD was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field.

39:5And the curious girdle of his ephod, that was upon it, was of the same, according to the work thereof; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the LORD commanded Moses.

39:5Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?

39:5Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

39:5Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.