Job 38:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 10:19 : 19 Their country stretching from Zidon to Gaza, in the direction of Gerar; and to Lasha, in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim.
  • Gen 23:17 : 17 So Ephron's field at Machpelah near Mamre, with the hollow in the rock and all the trees in the field and round it,
  • Job 26:10 : 10 By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.

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  • Job 38:16-19
    4 verses
    88%

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

    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;

  • Job 38:21-22
    2 verses
    85%

    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,

  • Job 38:4-6
    3 verses
    77%

    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?

    6 On what were its pillars based, or who put down its angle-stone,

  • 20 From where then does wisdom come, and where is the resting-place of knowledge?

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

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

  • 4 Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth,

  • 24 Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?

  • 23 God has knowledge of the way to it, and of its resting-place;

  • Job 21:28-29
    2 verses
    74%

    28 For you say, Where is the house of the ruler, and where is the tent of the evil-doer?

    29 Have you not put the question to the travellers, and do you not take note of their experience?

  • Job 38:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    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 11:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7 Are you able to take God's measure, to make discovery of the limits of the Ruler of all?

    8 They are higher than heaven; what is there for you to do? deeper than the underworld, and outside your knowledge;

  • 6 She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge.

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

  • 2 Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?

  • Job 37:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15 Have you knowledge of God's ordering of his works, how he makes the light of his cloud to be seen?

    16 Have you knowledge of the balancings of the clouds, the wonders of him who has all wisdom?

  • 23 To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?

  • 20 So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright.

  • 8 Put the question now to the past generations, and give attention to what has been searched out by their fathers:

  • Job 15:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

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

    9 What knowledge have you which we have not? is there anything in your mind which is not in ours?

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

  • 3 You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways.

  • 9 Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way.

  • 13 And you say, What knowledge has God? is he able to give decisions through the deep dark?

  • 27 Then he saw it, and put it on record; he gave it its fixed form, searching it out completely.

  • 3 Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.

  • 24 A man's steps are of the Lord; how then may a man have knowledge of his way?

  • 3 Man puts an end to the dark, searching out to the farthest limit the stones of the deep places of the dark.

  • 23 For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.

  • 5 Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours.

  • 8 My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

  • Job 37:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    18 Will you, with him, make the skies smooth, and strong as a polished looking-glass?

    19 Make clear to me what we are to say to him; we are unable to put our cause before him, because of the dark.

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

  • Job 38:35-36
    2 verses
    71%

    35 Do you send out the thunder-flames, so that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?

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

  • 28 But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in.

  • 27 See, we have made search with care, and it is so; it has come to our ears; see that you take note of it for yourself.

  • 28 Your purposes will come about, and light will be shining on your ways.