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16 “Have you entered into the sea’s sources?
Or have you walked around in the recesses of the deep?
17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you?
Or have you seen the gates of deep shadow?
18 Have you considered closely the earth’s vast expanse?
Declare it, if you know all of it.
19 “Where then[a] is the way where the light dwells?
And where then[b] is its place,
20 that you may take it to its territory,
and that you might discern the paths to its home?
21 You know, for you were born then,
and the number of your days is great.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 38:19 Or “Where exactly”
  2. Job 38:19 Or “where exactly”

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

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 (D)the paths to its home?
21 You know, for (E)you were born then,
    and the number of your days is great!

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