Job 38:2–4

³Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

⁷Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.

¹⁶Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

³⁵Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.

³But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

⁴I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

⁵I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

²⁵And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

¹¹I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.

³How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?

⁷Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

¹¹¶ And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the Lord’s passover.

¹⁷¶ Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.

⁴⁶And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

¹³Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

¹⁵Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

²²Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.

³Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

⁴I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

⁵I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

⁶Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

⁷There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

³⁵Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.

³⁶Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.

³⁷I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.

⁵Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.

¹⁰And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:

⁴Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou canst tell?

²Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

¹IN the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

²⁵Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.

²²The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.

²⁹When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

³⁰Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;