Book of Job - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 854
The Psalms, Solomon and Sacred Writers
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Hz-: revolves all the seasons by rule, To accomplish the work He commands On the face of the earth in its course. In kindness He leads them along To arrange for the tribes of His earth. Stand up, job, to listen to this, And examine the wonders of Gob! Know you all GOD’s process with them When reflecting His light on the mists? D0 you know how He balances clouds With wondrous perfection of skill? Or what makes your clothing be warm When the earth is depressed by South winds? Did you, for Him, spread out the skies That are formed like a glass to redect ?-·· Then teach us how Him to address ; We know not—-—»because we are dull! And must He be told when I speak; ls He ignorant when a man talks? Why ! we cannot now look on the light When it glitters about in the clouds, F-- 'I`ho’ the passing wind sweeps them away From the North a gold splendour proceeds There is terrible glory round GOD ! We cannot discuss the Most High ! Supreme in His justice and Might Whose Goodness will never do wrong Men therefore should reverence Him He regards not the learned, Ely: ghhhrzsz nf 32l;¤iml). 38 Then JEIIOVAH answered toljob out of the whirlwind, and said Who is this that obscures reflection By speeches on what he knows not ? Like a hero now gird up your loins I will ask you, and you answer Me Where were you, when I founded the earth l Inform l if you knew of My plan Who iii, ed its extent? Since you know l Or who on it stretched out the line ? On what where its timberings laid; Or who fixed its keystone on high? When the stars of the morn sang together And the sons of GOD shouted for joy ? \Vhen the sea was shut up within doors, When it came with a rush from the womb, When I gave it the fogs for a cloak, And in darkness enwrapped it around ; ro And over it laid my decree, And fixed it with bars and with doors, 1 I So far you can come Nor advance—·but there stay your proud waves l' I2 All your days have you governed the dawn, Taught the morning to know her own place ? With her vesture of roseate bloom, I4! And draped in it as with a robe, To seize on the wings ofthe earth, And to drive off the bad from her face, Norx.——Ch. 38, v. I4, should by the sense by some old transcriber. There are various read after verse xz, and has been displaced readings of the 14th verse.—·F. F 354
