Job Chapter 38

God challenges Job to answer

38:1 Then YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
38:2 Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
38:3 Gird up now your loins like a man; because I will ask you; and you answer Me.

God convinces Job by His mighty works

38:4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Proclaim, if you have understanding.
38:5 Who has laid the measures of it, [do you know]? or who has stretched the line on it?
38:6 On what were the foundations of it fastened? or who laid its corner stone;
38:7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of Elohimאֱלֹהִים
romanized: ʾĔlōhīm: [(ʔ)eloˈ(h)im]), the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ‎ (ʾĔlōah), is a Hebrew word meaning “gods”. Although the word is plural, in the Hebrew Bible it most often takes singular verbal or pronominal agreement and refers to a single deity particularly the God of Israel In other verses it refers to the singular gods of other nations or to deities in the plural A name for GOD — God The Creator shouted for joy?
38:8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out, it out from womb?
38:9 When I made the clouds to clothe of it, and thick cloud as its swaddling clothes,
38:10 And broke My limit on it, and placed bars and doors,
38:11 And said,  You shall come to here, but no further: and here shall your proud heap be put?
38:12 Have you commanded the morning from your days; [and] caused the dawn to know its place;
38:13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
38:14 It is turned as clay [under] the seal; and they stand out like a garment.
38:15 And their light is withheld from the wicked , and the lifted arm shall be broken.
38:16 Have you entered into the springs of the sea? or have you walked in the search of the deep?
38:17 Have death’s gates been opened to you? or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
38:18 Have you understand the width of the earth? Say if you know it all.
38:19 Where is the road [to] where light lives? where is the home of darkness,
38:20 that you would take it to the border of it, and that you should know the paths its house?
38:21 You know, because then you were born? and the number of your days [is] great?
38:22 Have you entered into the treasures of the snow? or have you seen the treasures of the hail,
38:23 Which I have kept back against the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war?
38:24 By what way is the light dispensed, what scatters the east wind on the earth?
38:25 Who has divided a trench for the flood, or a way for the lightning’s sound;
38:26 To make it to rain on the earth, [where] no man is; on the wilderness no man in it;
38:27 To satisfy the devastation and waste; and to cause the grass to grow?
38:28 Has the rain a father? also who has produced the drops of dew?
38:29 Out of whose womb comes the ice? and the hoarfrost of heaven, who created it?
38:30 The waters are hid like stone, and the face of the deep is captured.
38:31 Can you bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
38:32 Can you bring forth Mazzaroth in his time? or can you guide Arcturus with his sons?
38:33 Do you know the limits of the heavens? can you create the reign of it on the earth?
38:34 Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you?
38:35 Can you send lightnings, that they may go and say to you, Here we [are]?
38:36 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? or who has given understanding to the mind?
38:37 Who can by wisdom number the clouds? or who can lay down the pitchers of heaven,
38:38 When the dust pours into casting, and the clods cling hard together?
38:39 Will you hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,
38:40 When they bow down in their dens, and remain in the thicket to lie in wait?
38:41 Who provides for the raven his food? when his young ones cry to EL אֵל
‎Transliteration:ēl Pronunciation:ale — masculine noun — God, god-like one, mighty one occurs 245 times in 235 verses in the WLC Hebrew click here, they wander for lack of food.