Book of Job - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 855

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And to take from the wicked their light} And the arm they are lifting to wound? Have you gone to thg springs of the Sea tHave you traversed the limits 6 Space--· Have Deatlfs portals beenopened to you Have you looked on the Gates of Despair? Know you all that is done upon earth P Explai¤——if you know of the whole Where is the road to the dwelling of Light, And where is of Darkness the home? Can you guide us as far as their bounds, D0 you know the paths to their house? You know l-·for then you were born l And the number of your days is extreme! Have you been to the countries of snow And examined the treasure of hail That I hoard for the time of distrex, For the day of encounter and war? What path tread the rays of the Light And how spread the winds over earth ? Who cut for the typhoon its course And a road for the lightnings to shine? Who pours rain on the land without men, On the desert where no man resides; To satiate the desert and waste And to cause a green meadow to grow? And whois the father of the rain? And the drops of the dew, who begot? From whose belly comes out the ice, And the frost of the skies who has made; When the waters congeal like a stone. And it captures the face of the deep ? Did you fasten the P1eiades’ chain ? Or scatter the Wandering·fooI? Do you guide the Signs of the Seasons 2 Or console the North Star and his sons? Have you revealed Laws for the Skies, Or settled the Laws of the Earth? Can you lift up your voice to the clouds And with waterdloods cover yourself? If you send lightnings out, will they go We are ready for you? Who leads out the meteors with skill, Or gives to the comets their sight? Who skilfully numbers the clouds, Who pours out the skins ofthe skies, When the dust is converted to mud, And together the clods of earth stick? Do you hunt for the lion his prey; Or hll the young whelps of wild beasts, When they lie cowering down in their dens, And hide by themselves in their lairs ? Who prepares for the raven its food When its young ones are shrieking. aloud And are worn out for want of their meat? Mark the birth time of goats of the rock, And watch the birth-throes of gazellesl And to take ,night.——·F. F 16 18 QI 22 37 39

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That is, to take 5 No·r1=;.—23h. 38 v. gx. Supposed to be the d away darkness, which is the day (91*, Heb. constellation cllltnow Orion.-·—F. F. ) of criminals, whose time o action is 8 =. s