¹⁶ “Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea
    or walked in the recesses of the deep?^(A)
17 Have the gates of death^(B) been shown to you?
    Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness?^(C)
18 Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth?^(D)
    Tell me, if you know all this.^(E)

¹⁹ “What is the way to the abode of light?
    And where does darkness reside?^(F)
20 Can you take them to their places?
    Do you know the paths^(G) to their dwellings?
²¹ Surely you know, for you were already born!^(H)
    You have lived so many years!