Jó 38

1 Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,

2 "Who is this who darkens counsel

by words without knowledge?

3 Brace 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.

5 Who determined its measures, if you know?

Or who stretched the line on it?

6 What were its foundations fastened on?

Or who laid its cornerstone,

7 when 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,

9 when I made clouds its garment,

and wrapped it in thick darkness,

10 marked out for it my bound,

set bars and doors,

11 and 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,

13 that it might take hold of the ends of the earth,

and shake the wicked out of it?

14 It is changed as clay under the seal,

and presented as a garment.

15 From 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?

17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you?

Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

18 Have 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,

20 that you should take it to its bound,

that you should discern the paths to its house?

21 Surely you know, for you were born then,

and the number of your days is great!

22 Have you entered the storehouses of the snow,

or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,

23 which I have reserved against the time of trouble,

against the day of battle and war?

24 By what way is the lightning distributed,

or the east wind scattered on the earth?

25 Who has cut a channel for the flood water,

or the path for the thunderstorm,

26 to cause it to rain on a land where there is no man,

on the wilderness, in which there is no man,

27 to satisfy the waste and desolate ground,

to cause the tender grass to grow?

28 Does the rain have a father?

Or who fathers the drops of dew?

29 Whose womb did the ice come out of?

Who has given birth to the gray frost of the sky?

30 The 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?

32 Can you lead the constellations out in their season?

Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?

33 Do 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?

35 Can you send out lightnings, that they may go?

Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?

36 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts?

Or who has given understanding to the mind?

37 Who can count the clouds by wisdom?

Or who can pour out the containers of the sky,

38 when 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,

40 when they crouch in their dens,

and lie in wait in the thicket?

41 Who provides for the raven his prey,

when his young ones cry to God,

and wander for lack of food?

Ka Whakautu a Ihowā ki a Hopa

1 Kātahi a Ihowā ka whakahoki kupu ki a Hopa i roto i te tūkauati, ā, ka mea:

2 "Ko wai tēnei e whakapōuri nei i ngā whakaaro

ki ngā kupu kāhore ōna mātauranga?

3 Tēnā rā, whītikiria tōu hope, whakatāne;

ka ui hoki ahau ki a koe,

ā, māu e whakaatu mai ki ahau.

4 "I hea koia koe i ahau e whakatakoto ana i te tūranga o te whenua?

Whakaaturia mai, ki te mea e mōhio ana koe ki te whakaaro.

5 Nā wai i whakarite ōna rūri? Ki te mea e mōhio ana koe;

nā wai hoki i whakamārō te aho ki runga?

6 I whakaūkia ōna tūranga ki runga ki te aha?

Nā wai hoki i whakatakoto tōna kōhatu kokonga;

7 i te mea i waiata ngātahi ngā whetū o te ata,

ā, i hāmama ngā tama katoa a te Atua i te koa?

8 "Nā wai hoki i tūtaki te moana ki te tatau, i a ia e puta mai ana,

me te mea e whānau mai ana i roto i te kōpū?

9 I ahau rā i mea ai i te kapua hei kākahu mōna,

i te pōuri kerekere hei tākai mōna.

10 Ā, whakapuakina ana e ahau tāku tikanga mōna,

mea rawa ki ngā tūtaki, ki ngā tatau,

11 me tāku kī atu anō, ‘Ka taea mai e koe a konei, kāti;

hei konei ōu ngaru whakakake mau ai’?

12 "Ko koe koia, i ōu rā nei, te kaiwhakahau i te ata;

nāu rānei te pūaotanga i mōhio ai ki tōna wāhi;

13 kia rurukutia e ia ngā pito o te whenua,

ā, ruperupea ake ngā tāngata kikino i roto?

14 Kua whiti kē, kua pērā anō me te paru i te hīri;

tū ake ana ngā mea katoa ānō he kākahu.

15 Ā, e kaiponuhia ana tō rātou mārama ki te hunga kino,

whati iho te ringa whakakake.

16 "Kua tae atu rānei koe ki ngā mātāpuna o te moana?

Kua whakatakina haeretia rānei e koe te rire?

17 Kua whakapuaretia rānei ki a koe ngā kūwaha o te mate?

Kua kite rānei koe i ngā kūwaha o te ātārangi o te mate?

18 Kua oti rānei te whakaaro e koe te whānuitanga o te whenua?

Kōrero mai, ki te mea e mōhiotia katoatia ana e koe.

19 "Kei hea te ara ki te nohoanga o te mārama?

Te pōuri hoki, kei hea tōna wāhi?

20 Kia kawea atu ai e koe ki tōna rohe,

ā, mōhio iho koe ki ngā huarahi ki tōna whare?

21 I mōhio pea koe nō te mea i whānau koe i taua wā,

ā, he maha ōu rā!

22 "Kua tomo rānei koe ki ngā takotoranga o te hukarere,

kua kite rānei koe i ngā takotoranga o te whatu,

23 i āku i rongoā ai mō te wā o te hē,

mō te rā o te tatauranga, o te pakanga?

24 Tēnā koa, te ara i marara atu ai te mārama,

i pakaru atu ai te marangai ki runga ki te whenua?

25 "Nā wai i wehe he awa mō te waipuke,

he ara mō te uira o te whatitiri;

26 kia ua ai ki te whenua, ki te wāhi kāhore nei he tangata;

ki te koraha, kāhore nei ō reira tangata;

27 hei whakamākona i te tūhea, i te ururua;

hei mea kia pariri te tupu o te otaota hou?

28 "He matua tāne anō rānei tō te ua?

I whānau rānei i a wai ngā pata o te tōmairangi?

29 I puta mai i roto i tō wai kōpū te huka tio?

Ko te huka o te rangi, he whānau tēnā nā wai?

30 Me te mea he kōhatu e huna ana i te wai;

ā, whakatotoka ana te mata o te rire.

31 "E taea rānei e koe te here te huihui o Matariki,

e wewete rānei ngā here o Tautoru?

32 E taea rānei e koe te ārahi mai te Mataroto i tōna wā,

te taki mai rānei a Aketura rātou ko tāna rōpū?

33 E mōhio ana rānei koe ki ngā tikanga o te rangi?

Māu rānei e whai mana ai ki runga ki te whenua?

34 "E ara rānei i a koe tōu reo ki ngā kapua,

kia nui ai ngā wai hei taupoki i a koe?

35 E taea rānei e koe ngā uira te unga atu, e haere ai rātou,

me tā rātou kī anō ki a koe, ‘Tēnei mātou’?

36 Nā wai i whakanoho ngā whakaaro nunui ki ngā wāhi o roto?

Nā wai i hōmai ngā mahara ki te ngākau?

37 Ko wai te mea whakaaro nui hei tatau i ngā kapua?

Ko wai hei tāhoro i ngā ipu o te rangi?

38 Ina ka papatupu te puehu anō he mea whakarewa,

ā, ka piri ngā pōkuru ki a rātou anō?

39 "Māu rānei e hopu he kai mā te raiona?

Māu e nui ai he oranga mō ngā kūao raiona,

40 ina tāpapa iho rātou i ō rātou nohoanga,

ina noho i te piringa whanga ai?

41 Nā wai i rite ai tāna kai mā te raweni,

ina tangi āna pī ki te Atua,

ina kōpikopiko rātou i te kore kai?"