determined its dimensions? Surely, you know.
Or who stretched the measuring line across it?
Into what were its pillars sunk?
Or who laid its cornerstone,
while the morning stars sang
in harmony,
and all the angelic hosts shouted for joy?
And who pent the sea up behind
locked doors,
when it bolted forth from my womb?
when I wrapped it in a raiment of billowy clouds,
and made enveloping darkness its swaddling bands;
when I fixed its limits,
and set bar and door in place,
saying, ‘This far you may come
and no further;
here your haughty waves must halt!’”
Job 38:1–3, 22–29 & 40:2 TNK
Then Yahweh answered Job from out
of the tempest.
“Who is this that obscures divine counsel with ignorant mutterings?
Brace yourself and muster
up your strength;
Now I will pose the questions and you will answer me. . . .
Have you taken a tour of the storehouses of snow?
Or have you inspected the treasury
of hailstones
which I reserve for seasons of distress,
for days of battle and war?
What is the way from whence the lightning is dispatched,
or the place from whence the east wind blows over the earth?
Who forges a channel for
the torrents of rain,
or plots a path for the thunderstorms,
to water the land where no one lives,
a barren desert with no one in it,
to slake the thirst of a desolate land,
and make a wasteland
sprout forth grass?
Does the rain have a father?
Or who begets the drops of dew?
From whose womb comes the ice?
And who gives birth to the hoarfrost of heaven? . . .
Will the one who contends with Shaddai correct [her]?
Let the one who accuses Eloah
answer her.”
Job 5:17 TNK versicle
Blessed is the person
whom Eloah corrects!
Therefore do not despise the discipline of Shaddai.
Job 6:14 TNK versicle
Whoever withholds faithful love
from a friend,
forsakes the fear of Shaddai.
Job 8:3 TNK versicle
Does God pervert judgment,
or Shaddai distort justice?
Job 8:5 TNK versicle
Look to God
and plead with Shaddai.
Job 11:7 TNK versicle
Can you fathom the depths of Eloah,
or probe the far reaches of Shaddai?
Job 13:3 TNK versicle
I wish to speak with Shaddai;
I desire to argue my case with God.
Job 22:26 TNK versicle
Surely you shall delight in Shaddai,
and lift up your face to Eloah.
Job 27:10 TNK versicle
Will the godless take delight in Shaddai,
calling on Eloah at all times?
Job 27:11 TNK versicle
I will teach you about the power of God;
I will not conceal the secrets of Shaddai.
Job 31:2 TNK versicle
What is my lot from Eloah above,
my heritage from Shaddai on high?
Job 37:22–23 TNK versicle
Eloah is clothed in awesome majesty;
Shaddai is far beyond our reach—
pre-eminent in power and justice,
abounding in righteousness.
Psalm 22:9–11 TNK
It was you who drew me out from the womb like a midwife,
and confided me to my mother’s breasts.
On you I was cast from my birth,
from my mother’s pregnancy you have been my God.
Do not be far from me,
for trouble is close at hand,
and there is no one to aid me.
Psalm 27:10 TNK versicle
Though my father and my mother abandon me,
yet Yahweh will take me in.
Psalm 40:9–13 TNK
I proclaim your righteousness
in the great assembly;
