Job 38:12-21

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¹² “Have you commanded the morning since your days began
    and caused the dawn to know its place,^(A)
13 so that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth,
    and the wicked be shaken out of it?^(B)
14 It is changed like clay under the seal,
    and it is dyed^[a] like a garment.
¹⁵ Light is withheld from the wicked,
    and their uplifted arm is broken.^(C)

¹⁶ “Have you entered into the springs of the sea
    or walked in the recesses of the deep?^(D)
17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you,
    or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?^(E)
18 Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth?
    Declare, if you know all this.^(F)

¹⁹ “Where is the way to the dwelling of light,
    and where is the place of darkness,
²⁰ that you may take it to its territory
    and that you may discern the paths to its home?^(G)
21 Surely you know, for you were born then,
    and the number of your days is great!^(H)