Job 38:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 77:19 : 19 Your way was in the sea, and your road in the great waters; there was no knowledge of your footsteps.
  • Prov 8:24 : 24 When there was no deep I was given birth, when there were no fountains flowing with water.
  • Jer 51:36 : 36 For this reason the Lord has said: See, I will give support to your cause, and take payment for what you have undergone; I will make her sea dry, and her fountain without water.
  • Job 26:5-6 : 5 The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them. 6 The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil.

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  • Job 38:17-22
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    17 Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?

    18 Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all.

    19 Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

    20 So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house?

    21 No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great.

    22 Have you come into the secret place of snow, or have you seen the store-houses of the ice-drops,

  • 14 The deep waters say, It is not in me: and the sea says, It is not with me.

  • Job 11:8-9
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    8 They are higher than heaven; what is there for you to do? deeper than the underworld, and outside your knowledge;

    9 Longer in measure than the earth, and wider than the sea.

  • 8 Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;

  • Job 38:10-13
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    77%

    10 Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;

    11 And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?

    12 Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;

    13 So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?

  • Job 38:33-34
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    76%

    33 Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?

    34 Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?

  • 11 Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

  • 8 Were you present at the secret meeting of God? and have you taken all wisdom for yourself?

  • 30 The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.

  • Jonah 2:5-6
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    5 And I said, I have been sent away from before your eyes; how may I ever again see your holy Temple?

    6 The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head.

  • Job 38:4-5
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    4 Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.

    5 By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?

  • Job 26:4-5
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    4 To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you?

    5 The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.

  • 3 In my trouble I was crying to the Lord, and he gave me an answer; out of the deepest underworld I sent up a cry, and you gave ear to my voice.

  • 15 Will you keep the old way by which evil men went?

  • 16 Then the deep beds of the sea were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of the Lord's wrath, because of the breath of his mouth.

  • Job 38:24-25
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    24 Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?

    25 By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder;

  • 30 See, he is stretching out his mist, covering the tops of the mountains with it.

  • 19 Your way was in the sea, and your road in the great waters; there was no knowledge of your footsteps.

  • 7 Deep is sounding to deep at the noise of your waterfalls; all your waves have gone rolling over me.

  • 15 And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken.

  • 12 But where may wisdom be seen? and where is the resting-place of knowledge?

  • 14 He has made men like the fishes of the sea, like the worms which have no ruler over them.

  • 15 Then the deep beds of the waters were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of your words of wrath, O Lord, because of the breath from your mouth.

  • 7 He makes the waters of the sea come together in a mass; he keeps the deep seas in store-houses.

  • 10 Did you not make the sea dry, the waters of the great deep? did you not make the deep waters of the sea a way for the Lord's people to go through?

  • 29 When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth:

  • 24 Far off is true existence, and very deep; who may have knowledge of it?

  • 15 You made valleys for fountains and springs; you made the ever-flowing rivers dry.

  • 36 Who has put wisdom in the high clouds, or given knowledge to the lights of the north?

  • 4 Who has gone up to heaven and come down? who has taken the winds in his hands, prisoning the waters in his robe? by whom have all the ends of the earth been fixed? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you are able to say?

  • 12 Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?

  • 6 You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.

  • 28 Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist?

  • 15 Let me not be covered by the flowing waters; let not the deep waters go over my head, and let me not be shut up in the underworld.

  • 1 He is so cruel that no one is ready to go against him. Who then is able to keep his place before me?