Job 38:16-21

The Voice

¹⁶     Have you entered into the sea’s tidewaters
        or trod the bottom of the ocean looking for the deepest cavern?
¹⁷     Have you found it, only for death’s infamous gates to be unveiled to you,
        or did you catch a glimpse of the gates of the deep darkness beneath the waters?
¹⁸     Have you roamed the earth in her entirety, comprehended her vast regions?
        If you know all of this, declare it! Make your statement!

¹⁹     Tell me, which way is it to where the light resides?
        And darkness? Where does the darkness live?
²⁰     When you escort it through its regions every day,
        will you know the way to its home?
²¹     Ah, but of course you know!
        After all, you were born way back then when all this was created,
        and your days have been many indeed.