1 Tada odgovori Gospod Jovu iz vihora i reče: 2 Ko je to što zamračuje savet rečima nerazumno? 3 Opaši se sada kao čovek; ja ću te pitati, a ti mi kazuj. 4 Gde si ti bio kad ja osnivah zemlju? Kaži, ako si razuman. 5 Ko joj je odredio mere? Znaš li? Ili ko je rastegao uže preko nje? 6 Na čem su podnožja njena uglavljena? Ili ko joj je metnuo kamen ugaoni? 7 Kad pevahu zajedno zvezde jutarnje i svi sinovi Božji klikovahu. 8 Ili ko je zatvorio more vratima kad kao iz utrobe iziđe? 9 Kad ga odeh oblakom i povih tamom; 10 Kad postavih za nj uredbu svoju i metnuh mu prevornice i vrata; 11 I rekoh: Dovde ćeš dolaziti, a dalje nećeš, i tu će se ustavljati ponositi valovi tvoji. 12 Jesi li svog veka zapovedio jutru, pokazao zori mesto njeno, 13 Da se uhvati zemlji za krajeve, i da se rasteraju s nje bezbožnici, 14 Da se ona promeni kao blato pečatno, a oni da stoje kao haljina, 15 Da se oduzme bezbožnicima svetlost njihova i ruka podignuta da se slomi? 16 Jesi li dolazio do dubina morskih? I po dnu propasti jesi li hodio? 17 Jesu li ti se otvorila vrata smrtna, i vrata sena smrtnog jesi li video? 18 Jesi li sagledao širinu zemaljsku? Kaži, ako znaš sve to. 19 Koji je put k stanu svetlosti? I gde je mesto tami, 20 Da bi je uzeo i odveo do međe njene, i znao staze k domu njenom? 21 Znaš ti; jer si se onda rodio, i broj je dana tvojih velik. 22 Jesi li ulazio u riznice snežne? Ili riznice gradne jesi li video, 23 Koje čuvam za vreme nevolje, za dan boja i rata? 24 Kojim se putem deli svetlost i ustoka se razilazi po zemlji? 25 Ko je razdelio jazove povodnju i put svetlici gromovnoj? 26 Da bi išao dažd na zemlju gde nema nikoga, i na pustinju gde nema čoveka, 27 Da napoji pusta i nerodna mesta, i učini da raste trava zelena. 28 Ima li dažd oca? Ili ko je rodio kaplje rosne? 29 Iz čije je utrobe izašao led, i ko je rodio slanu nebesku, 30 Da se vode skrivaju i postaju kao kamen i krajevi propasti srastaju? 31 Možeš li svezati miline vlašićima? Ili svezu štapima razrešiti? 32 Možeš li izvesti južne zvezde na vreme? Ili kola sa zvezdama njihovim hoćeš li voditi? 33 Znaš li red nebeski? Možeš li ti uređivati vladu njegovu na zemlji? 34 Možeš li dignuti glas svoj do oblaka da bi te mnoštvo vode pokrilo? 35 Možeš li pustiti munje da idu, i da ti kažu: Evo nas? 36 Ko je metnuo čoveku u srce mudrost? Ili ko je dao duši razum? 37 Ko će izbrojati oblake mudrošću, i mehove nebeske ko će izliti, 38 Da se raskvašen prah zgusne i grude se slepe? 39 „Možeš li uloviti plen za lavice, ili zadovoljiti apetit mladih lavova, 40 kada se kriju u svojim jazbinama, i vrebaju u šipražju? 41 Ko obezbeđuje gavranu plen njegov, kada njegovi mladi vapiju Bogu, i lutaju zbog nedostatka hrane?
Job · Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
Job 38 Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
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Notes on this text (3)
- Chapter divisions follow the Hebrew Bible in Job 39–41, Ezekiel 20–21, Hosea 11–12 and Jonah 1–2 (verse numbers there differ from English Bibles).
- eBible.org's Latin-script edition, ekavian pronunciation (e.g. svet, greh).
- No deuterocanonical books.
Cross references (40)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Job 40:6; 2 Kings 2:11; Job 37:1–2; Exodus 19:16–19; 1 Kings 19:11
- 2 Job 42:3; Job 35:16; 1 Timothy 1:7; Job 34:35; Job 27:11
- 3 Job 40:7; Jeremiah 1:17; Exodus 12:11; 1 Kings 18:46; 1 Peter 1:13
- 4 Psalm 104:5; Hebrews 1:10; Proverbs 30:4; Hebrews 1:2; Psalm 102:25
- 5 Isaiah 40:12; Job 11:9; Zechariah 2:1–2; Proverbs 8:27; Isaiah 40:22
- 6 Job 26:7; Psalm 104:5; Psalm 93:1; Isaiah 28:16; 2 Peter 3:5
- 7 Revelation 5:11; Job 1:6; Ezra 3:11–12; Revelation 22:16; Revelation 2:28
- 8 Genesis 1:9; Proverbs 8:29; Jeremiah 5:22; Psalm 104:8–9; Psalm 33:7
- 9 Genesis 1:2
- 10 Jeremiah 5:22; Psalm 104:9; Psalm 33:7; Job 26:10; Genesis 1:9–10
- 11 Psalm 89:9; Proverbs 8:29; Psalm 65:6–7; Luke 8:32–33; Mark 4:39–41
- 12 Psalm 74:16; Psalm 148:3–5; Genesis 1:5; Job 8:9; Psalm 136:7–8
- 13 Psalm 104:35; Job 37:3; Exodus 14:27; Psalm 104:21–22; Job 24:13–17
- 14 Psalm 104:6; Psalm 104:2
- 15 Psalm 10:15; Psalm 37:17; Job 18:5; Proverbs 4:19; Ezekiel 30:22
- 16 Proverbs 8:24; Psalm 77:19; Job 26:5–6; Jeremiah 51:36
- 17 Psalm 9:13; Psalm 107:18; Job 3:5; Job 12:22; Psalm 107:14
- 18 Revelation 20:9; Psalm 89:11–12; Jeremiah 31:37; Isaiah 40:28; Job 28:24
- 19 Ezekiel 32:8; Matthew 27:45; Isaiah 45:7; Genesis 1:3–4; Amos 4:13
- 20 Job 26:10; Genesis 10:19; Genesis 23:17
- 21 Job 15:7; Job 38:4; Job 38:12
- 22 Job 37:6; Psalm 135:7; Psalm 33:7; Job 6:16
- 23 Joshua 10:11; Isaiah 30:30; Revelation 16:21; Exodus 9:18; Job 36:13
- 24 Job 38:12–13; Jonah 4:8; Matthew 24:27
- 25 Job 28:26; Psalm 29:3–10; Job 36:27–28; Job 37:3–6
- 26 Jeremiah 14:22; Psalm 107:35; Hebrews 6:7–8; Isaiah 35:1–2; Isaiah 43:19–20
- 27 Psalm 107:35; Psalm 104:14
- 28 Jeremiah 14:22; Psalm 147:8; Jeremiah 10:13; Proverbs 3:20; Deuteronomy 33:13
- 29 Psalm 147:16–17; Job 37:10; Job 6:16; Job 38:8
- 30 Job 37:10
- 31 Amos 5:8; Job 9:9
- 32 Job 38:31; 2 Kings 23:5; Job 9:9
- 33 Jeremiah 31:35–36; Genesis 8:22; Psalm 148:6; Job 38:12–13; Jeremiah 33:25
- 34 Job 22:11; Zechariah 10:1; James 5:18; Job 36:27–28; 1 Samuel 12:18
- 35 Job 36:32; Job 37:3; 2 Kings 1:14; Revelation 11:5–6; Numbers 16:35
- 36 Job 32:8; Psalm 51:6; Proverbs 2:6; Ecclesiastes 2:26; James 1:5
- 37 Psalm 147:4; Genesis 9:15; Genesis 8:1; Genesis 15:5
- 39 Psalm 104:21; Job 4:10–11; Psalm 34:10; Psalm 145:15–16
- 40 Job 37:8; Numbers 24:9; Numbers 23:24; Genesis 49:9
- 41 Luke 12:24; Matthew 6:26; Psalm 147:9; Psalm 104:27–28
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Who is the father of the rain? And who hath begotten the drops of dew?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
And yet, O talkative Dialectician, I will ask thee one small question, and answer thou me, as He saith to Job, Who through whirlwind and cloud giveth Divine admonitions. Are there many mansions in God's House, as thou hast heard, or only one?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
Put then a limit to your thought, so that your curiosity in investigating the incomprehensible may not incur the reproaches of Job, and you be not asked by him, "Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened?" If ever you hear in the Psalms, "I bear up the pillars of it;" see in these pillars the power which sustains it.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)
… condensed the air into clouds, and bade them carry the waters of the rain, now bringing golden-tinted clouds from the north, now changing these into one uniform appearance, and again transforming them into manifold circles and other shapes? Who can number the clouds in wisdom?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
Whereof in Job it saith, And He knoweth the separations of the clouds, and hath bent down the heaven to the earth: and, He who numbereth the clouds in wisdom: and, the cloud is not rent under Him.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)