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16 “Have you ever gone to ·where the sea begins [L the sources of the sea]
    or walked in the ·valleys under the sea [L depths of the deep]?
17 Have the gates of death been ·opened [or revealed] to you?
    Have you seen the gates of the deep darkness?
18 Do you understand how wide the earth is?
    Tell me, if you know all these things.
19 “What is the path to light’s home,
    and where does darkness live?
20 Can you take them to their places?
    Do you know the ·way [path] to their homes?
21 Surely you know, if you were already born when all this happened!
    Have you lived that many years?

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16 
“Have you entered and explored the springs of the sea
Or [have you] walked in the recesses of the deep?
17 
“Have the gates of death been revealed to you,
Or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
18 
“Have you understood the expanse of the earth?
Tell Me, if you know all this.

19 
“Where is the [a]way where light dwells?
And as for darkness, where is its place,
20 
That you may take it to its territory
And that you may know the paths to its house?
21 
“You [must] know, since you were born then,
And [b]because you are so extremely old!

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Footnotes

  1. Job 38:19 Light travels on a path or “way” through empty space at 299,792,458 meters per second (approximately 186,282 miles per second).
  2. Job 38:21 Lit the number of your days is great.