Job 38: God’s answer to suffering are questions of Capacity.  

1: And Yehoweh replies to the/time of Job-in-a-storm and He says

2: Who is this who causes a plan to darken with a discussion without knowledge?

3: Gird up your loins, na (please), like a mighty-one. And I ask you and you cause me to know.

4: Where were you at the founding of land?

Emphasize it if your understanding had known it.

5: Who set its measurements?

For you know!

Or, who stretched a line over it?

6: Into what sockets was it made to settle?

Who despatched a corner stone

7: when stars rang out as one and all sons of God caused a blast (ruah as in thruah)?

8: And bursting out sea’s doors to be caused to be fenced in from breaking out of its womb?

9: To set out clothes a cloud, a swaddling band for a dark cloud?

10: And I shatter. I am on it. And I establish my statute with a bolt and doors.

11: And I say, Till here you come and no more. And till here is set the swell of your waves.

12: Was it from your days, Morning, You ordered  and you knew daybreak’s place

13: to grasp the corners of the *land (fem) and wicked be shaken out of her (Morning gets dawn to make the bed)?

14:  She* makes herself turn herself over like a clay signet and makes herself present herself like a garment.

15:  And light is withheld from the wicked and a raised arm is shattered.

16:  Have you traversed till the springs of the sea and had you made yourself walk yourself in search of depths?

17: Had gates of death been exposed/bared to you? And have you seen gates of shadows of deaths?

18: Have you made yourself discern till the breadth of land. Make an emphasis of it if you had known all of it.

19: Where is the way to where light and darkness dwell?

Where is its place

20: that you can seize it till its limit and discern its track to its home?

21: You knew,  then, if you were born and the number of your great days?

22: Have you traversed the snow warehouse and have you seen the hail warehouse

23: which I had withheld for a time of trouble, for a day of battle and war?

24: Where is this? The path apportioned for light to cause to disperse a front on land?

25: Who divided the flood channels and paths and voices (thunderings) of lightning,

26: to make it rain on no-man’s land, desert with no human in it

27: to complete a calamity (shava shaea),

And to cause a fresh grass sprout to sprout (motsa tsamiah) in a calamity?

28: Is there a father for rain?

Who has begotten the night-dew reservoir?

29: From whose womb did ice break forth?

And who had begotten heaven’s covers /frost?

30: Like water makes itself hide itself in a stone (Exod 17:6, Num 20:8,10) and a surface of a sea abyss makes itself seize itself.

31: Can you bind the bonds (prevent expansion) of Keema (Pleaides – to sail –  a 7 “sisters” young blue star cluster with 2 “parents”  in Taurus used to navigate and Dawn sighting marks first spring rain to start harvest of winter crop ( Krithika – the cutting – in India, also Divali on the first day of Karthik month, last winter showers to start ploughing in November), Subaru (cluster) in Japan ( hence car logo), becoming less compact with time and so will only last 250 million years before our galaxy’s gravitational force pulls it apart , now messier 45. Ref: space.com, Wikipedia )

or open belts/cords (prevent contraction) of Orion? (Ksil Isaiah 10:13 Orions/constellions https://youtu.be/9uhVae828lM?si=KfIJAwALSvYF0gky Orion is the foundational 7 star constellation pointing to all other constellations and seen in the skies of both hemispheres. Most of the stars in Orion are red (Betelgeuse) or blue  (Rigel and the 3 belt stars) supergiants – gradually expanding and darkening with time and will only brighten when they explode into a supernova when their cores eventually run out of fuel – closest to this happening being Betelguese https://youtu.be/SbCHSYJfLu8?si=2Fob1bEqwXDu2NF3   though Belelguese dimmed in 2019 for a year and will again do so in 2027 – as Iraq had its 2019-21 uprising, the US embassy bombing and retaliatory assasinations of Iranian Suleimani). 

Keema / Pleiades asterism

32: Can you cause Mazaroth (unknown constellations?) to be brought out in their time?

And can you cause Bear (Ayish – Ursa major, Big Dipper – 7 stars) and it’s cubs (Ursa minor, lesser bear, little dipper with its Polaris marking north) to be guided?

The bear and it’s cubs – Ursa asterisms

33: Do you know heaven’s statutes? Or establish jurisdiction in the land?

34: Can you lift up your voice to a cloud and an abundance of water cover you?

35: Can you send for lightning flashes and they walk up to you and say, “Here we are”.

36: Who placed wisdom in the inner-parts?

Or who gave Discernment to the mind?

37: Who tallies  dust particles (atoms etc)?

Who makes heavens’ jugs/ bottles to be laid down

38: for pouring into dust to be adhered to a cast and a clod?

39: Can you hunt an old lioness for food?

Can you top up/ fill life in young lions

40: when they crouch in dens, settle for an ambush (Arab) in a tent ( Sukkah)?

41: Who makes a raven (oreb) determine its hunting-game when his children cry to a god for help and go astray without food?

Prayer:

Why do I suffer Lord?

You are the Creator, Sustainer and lover of all living beings and I trust You with Your Master Plan. So I may be incapable of understanding Your plan but I am able to entrust myself to You in my suffering. Amen.

 

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