16 Have you traveled to the sources of the sea
or walked in the depths of the oceans?
17 Have the gates(A) of death been revealed to you?
Have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
18 Have you comprehended the extent of the earth?
Tell me, if you know all this.

19 Where is the road to the home of light?
Do you know where darkness lives,
20 so you can lead it back to its border?
Are you familiar with the paths to its home?
21 Don’t you know? You were already born;(B)
you have lived so long![a]

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Footnotes

  1. 38:21 Lit born; the number of your days is great

16 “Have you been to the source of the sea
    and walked about in the recesses of the deepest ocean?
17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you?
    Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness?
18 Do you understand the breadth of the earth?
    Tell me, since you know it all!

19 “Where is the road to where the light lives?
    Or where does the darkness live?
20 Can you take it to its homeland,
    since you know the path to his house?
21 You should know! After all, you had been born back then,
    so the number of your days is great!

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