[DailyReading] Job's lesson in lowliness

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Lesson: God's Blessings on the Lowly
Reading: Job's lesson in lowliness  2019-09-28
Reference: Job 38:1-21 
Job 38:1: Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
Job 38:2: Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
Job 38:3: Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
Job 38:4: Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
Job 38:5: Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
Job 38:6: Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
Job 38:7: When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Job 38:8: Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
Job 38:9: When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
Job 38:10: And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
Job 38:11: And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Job 38:12: Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
Job 38:13: That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
Job 38:14: It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.
Job 38:15: And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.
Job 38:16: Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?
Job 38:17: Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
Job 38:18: Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.
Job 38:19: Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
Job 38:20: That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?
Job 38:21: Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great?
(KJV)