1 And the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said,

2 Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?

3 Get your strength together like a man of war; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

4 Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.

5 By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?

6 On what were its pillars based, or who put down its angle-stone,

7 When the morning stars made songs together, and all the sons of the gods gave cries of joy?

8 Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;

9 When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it,

10 Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;

11 And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?

12 Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;

13 So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?

14 It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe;

15 And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken.

16 Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?

17 Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?

18 Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all.

19 Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

20 So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house?

21 No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great.

22 Have you come into the secret place of snow, or have you seen the store-houses of the ice-drops,

23 Which I have kept for the time of trouble, for the day of war and fighting?

24 Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?

25 By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder;

26 Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;

27 To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?

28 Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist?

29 Out of whose body came the ice? and who gave birth to the cold mist of heaven?

30 The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.

31 Are the bands of the Pleiades fixed by you, or are the cords of Orion made loose?

32 Do you make Mazzaroth come out in its right time, or are the Bear and its children guided by you?

33 Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?

34 Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?

35 Do you send out the thunder-flames, so that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?

36 Who has put wisdom in the high clouds, or given knowledge to the lights of the north?

37 By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth,

38 When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses?

1 Katahi a Ihowa ka whakahoki kupu ki a Hopa i roto i te tukauati, a ka mea,

2 Ko wai tenei e whakapouri nei i nga whakaaro ki nga kupu kahore ona matauranga?

3 Tena ra, whitikiria tou hope, whakatane; ka ui hoki ahau ki a koe, a mau e whakaatu mai ki ahau.

4 I hea koia koe i ahau e whakatakoto ana i te turanga o te whenua? Whakaaturia mai, ki te mea e mohio ana koe ki te whakaaro.

5 Na wai i whakarite ona ruri? ki te mea e mohio ana koe: na wai hoki i whakamaro te aho ki runga?

6 I whakaukia ona turanga ki runga ki te aha? Na wai hoki i whakatakoto tona kohatu kokonga;

7 I te mea i waiata ngatahi nga whetu o te ata, a i hamama nga tama katoa a te Atua i te koa?

8 Na wai hoki i tutaki te moana ki te tatau, i a ia e puta mai ana, me te mea e whanau mai ana i roto i te kopu?

9 I ahau ra i mea ai i te kapua hei kakahu mona, i te pouri kerekere hei takai mona.

10 A whakapuakina ana e ahau taku tikanga mona, mea rawa ki nga tutaki, ki nga tatau,

11 Me taku ki atu ano, Ka taea mai e koe a konei, kati; hei konei ou ngaru whakakake mau ai?

12 Ko koe koia, i ou ra nei, te kaiwhakahau i te ata; nau ranei te puaotanga i mohio ai ki tona wahi;

13 Kia rurukutia e ia nga pito o te whenua, a ruperupea ake nga tangata kikino i roto?

14 Kua whiti ke, kua pera ano me te paru i te hiri: tu ake ana nga mea katoa ano he kakahu:

15 A e kaiponuhia ana to ratou marama ki te hunga kino, whati iho te ringa whakakake.

16 Kua tae atu ranei koe ki nga matapuna o te moana? Kua whakatakina haeretia ranei e koe te rire?

17 Kua whakapuaretia ranei ki a koe nga kuwaha o te mata? Kua kite ranei koe i nga kuwaha o te atarangi o te mate?

18 Kua oti ranei te whakaaro e koe te whanuitanga o te whenua? Korero mai, ki te mea e mohiotia katoatia ana e koe.

19 Kei hea te ara ki te nohoanga o te marama? Te pouri hoki, kei hea tona wahi?

20 Kia kawea atu ai e koe ki tona rohe, a mohio iho koe ki nga huarahi ki tona whare?

21 I mohio pea koe no te mea i whanau koe i taua wa, a he maha ou ra!

22 Kua tomo ranei koe ki nga takotoranga o te hukarere, kua kite ranei koe i nga takotoranga o te whatu,

23 I aku i rongoa ai mo te wa o te he, mo te ra o te tatauranga, o te pakanga?

24 Tena koa, te ara i marara atu ai te marama, i pakaru atu ai te marangai ki runga ki te whenua?

25 Na wai i wehe he awa mo te waipuke, he ara mo te uira o te whatitiri;

26 Kia ua ai ki te whenua, ki te wahi kahore nei he tangata; ki te koraha, kahore nei o reira tangata;

27 Hei whakamakona i te tuhea, i te ururua; hei mea kia pariri te tupu o te otaota hou?

28 He matua tane ano ranei to te ua? I whanau ranei i a wai nga pata o te tomairangi?

29 I puta mai i roto i to wai kopu te huka tio? Ko te huka o te rangi, he whanau tena na wai?

30 Me te mea he kohatu e huna ana i te wai; a whakatotoka ana te mata o te rire.

31 E taea ranei e koe te here te huihui o Matariki, e wewete ranei nga here o Tautoru?

32 E taea ranei e koe te arahi mai te Mataroto i tona wa, te taki mai ranei a Aketura ratou ko tana ropu?

33 E mohio ana ranei koe ki nga tikanga o te rangi? Mau ranei e whai mana ai ki runga ki te whenua?

34 E ara ranei i a koe tou reo ki nga kapua, kia nui ai nga wai hei taupoki i a koe?

35 E taea ranei e koe nga uira te unga atu, e haere ai ratou, me ta ratou ki ano ki a koe, Tenei matou?

36 Na wai i whakanoho nga whakaaro nunui ki nga wahi o roto? Na wai i homai nga mahara ki te ngakau?

37 Ko wai te mea whakaaro nui hei tatau i nga kapua? Ko wai hei tahoro i nga ipu o te rangi?

38 Ina ka papatupu te puehu ano he mea whakarewa, a ka piri nga pokuru ki a ratou ano?

39 Mau ranei e hopu he kai ma te raiona? Mau e nui ai he oranga mo nga kuao raiona,

40 Ina tapapa iho ratou i o ratou nohoanga, ina noho i te piringa whanga ai?

41 Na wai i rite ai tana kai ma te raweni, ina tangi ana pi ki te Atua, ina kopikopiko ratou i te kore kai?