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16 Have you ever traveled to the sources of the sea
or walked around in the dark depths of the ocean?

17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you?
Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?[a]

18 Do you comprehend the vast expanses of the earth?
Tell me, if you know all this.

19 How can someone get to the dwelling of light?
Where is the place for darkness?
20 Could you lead it to its property?
Do you know the way to its house?
21 You must know that, since you were born before it,
and you have lived for so many days!

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Footnotes

  1. Job 38:17 The scribes of the Hebrew text consistently spell this word as shadow of death. Many recent translations alter the spelling to a very similar word that means deep darkness. The EHV in many cases retains the traditional reading.