Job 38:11

You still the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.

He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.

You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever.

Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, Yahweh sits as King forever.

He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still.

The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.

God has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens.

How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,

The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them.

You have set a boundary that they may not pass over, that they don’t turn again to cover the earth.

He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.

He will surely wind you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a large country. There you will die, and there the chariots of your glory will be, you shame of your lord’s house.

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,

Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: “I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;

Why, when I came, was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness. Their fish stink because there is no water, and die of thirst.

Don’t you fear me?’ says Yahweh ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? Though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail. Though they roar, they still can’t pass over it.’

“He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom. By his understanding he has stretched out the heavens.

Therefore they will be like the morning mist, and like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney.

before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Yahweh comes on you, before the day of Yahweh’s anger comes on you.

In the fourth watch of the night, Jesus came to them, walking on the sea.

He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

He said to them, “Where is your faith?” Being afraid they marveled, saying to one another, “Who is this then, that he commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him?”

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

His feet were like burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace. His voice was like the voice of many waters.

Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up. The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you.

David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring them to Gath, saying, “Lest they should tell about us, saying, ‘David did this, and this has been his way all the time he has lived in the country of the Philistines.’ ”

Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don’t stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh.

Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,

a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?

As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

For the scepter of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous; so that the righteous won’t use their hands to do evil.

lightning and hail, snow and clouds; stormy wind, fulfilling his word;

But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.

They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

Have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepares to destroy? Where is the fury of the oppressor?

At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse;

“You shall say this to them: ‘The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.’ ”

Yahweh, correct me, but gently; not in your anger, lest you reduce me to nothing.

But it was plucked up in fury. It was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were broken off and withered. The fire consumed them.

Because of this, the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.

Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other god who is able to deliver like this.”

Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come, the breath of Yahweh coming up from the wilderness; and his spring will become dry, and his fountain will be dried up. He will plunder the storehouse of treasure.

Hear, you mountains, Yahweh’s controversy, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.

A revelation, Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”

He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.

When they got up into the boat, the wind ceased.

Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree.

Fire came out from before Yahweh, and devoured them, and they died before Yahweh.

and had taken captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great. They didn’t kill any, but carried them off, and went their way.

Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by Yahweh’s rebuke, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

He went and found his body thrown on the path, and the donkey and the lion standing by the body. The lion had not eaten the body, nor mauled the donkey.

In all this, Job didn’t sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”

He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.

though its waters roar and are troubled, though the mountains tremble with their swelling.

Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.

Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.

Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.

when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.

He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.

They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”

When therefore they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing near to the boat; and they were afraid.