Job 38:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea, or walked about in the recesses of the deep?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 77:19 : 19 You walked through the sea; you passed through the surging waters, but left no footprints.
  • Prov 8:24 : 24 When there were no deep oceans I was born, when there were no springs overflowing with water;
  • Jer 51:36 : 36 Therefore the LORD says,“I will stand up for your cause. I will pay the Babylonians back for what they have done to you. I will dry up their sea. I will make their springs run dry.
  • Job 26:5-6 : 5 A Better Description of God’s Greatness“The dead tremble– those beneath the waters and all that live in them. 6 The underworld is naked before God; the place of destruction lies uncovered.

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    17Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of deepest darkness?

    18Have you considered the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know it all!

    19“In what direction does light reside, and darkness, where is its place,

    20that you may take them to their borders and perceive the pathways to their homes?

    21You know, for you were born before them; and the number of your days is great!

    22Have you entered the storehouse of the snow, or seen the armory of the hail,

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    14The deep says,‘It is not with me.’ And the sea says,‘It is not with me.’

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    8It is higher than the heavens– what can you do? It is deeper than Sheol– what can you know?

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    8“Who shut up the sea with doors when it burst forth, coming out of the womb,

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    10when I prescribed its limits, and set in place its bolts and doors,

    11when I said,‘To here you may come and no farther, here your proud waves will be confined’?

    12Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, or made the dawn know its place,

    13that it might seize the corners of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?

  • Job 38:33-34
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    33Do you know the laws of the heavens, or can you set up their rule over the earth?

    34Can you raise your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

  • Job 22:11
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    11why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.

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    30when the waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen solid?

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    5Water engulfed me up to my neck; the deep ocean surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.

    6I went down to the very bottoms of the mountains; the gates of the netherworld barred me in forever; but you brought me up from the Pit, O LORD, my God.

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    4God’s questions to Job“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you possess understanding!

    5Who set its measurements– if you know– or who stretched a measuring line across it?

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    4To whom did you utter these words? And whose spirit has come forth from your mouth?

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    3You threw me into the deep waters, into the middle of the sea; the ocean current engulfed me; all the mighty waves you sent swept over me.

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    16The depths of the sea were exposed; the inner regions of the world were uncovered by the LORD’s battle cry, by the powerful breath from his nose.

  • Job 38:24-25
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    24In what direction is lightning dispersed, or the east winds scattered over the earth?

    25Who carves out a channel for the heavy rains, and a path for the rumble of thunder,

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    30See how he scattered his lightning about him; he has covered the depths of the sea.

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    19You walked through the sea; you passed through the surging waters, but left no footprints.

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    7One deep stream calls out to another at the sound of your waterfalls; all your billows and waves overwhelm me.

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    15Then from the wicked the light is withheld, and the arm raised in violence is broken.

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    14You made people like fish in the sea, like animals in the sea that have no ruler.

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    10Did you not dry up the sea, the waters of the great deep? Did you not make a path through the depths of the sea, so those delivered from bondage could cross over?

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    29when he gave the sea his decree that the waters should not pass over his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

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    24Whatever has happened is beyond human understanding; it is far deeper than anyone can fathom.

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    15You broke open the spring and the stream; you dried up perpetually flowing rivers.

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    36Who has put wisdom in the heart, or has imparted understanding to the mind?

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    32It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had a head of white hair.

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    28Does the rain have a father, or who has fathered the drops of the dew?

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    15Don’t let the current overpower me! Don’t let the deep swallow me up! Don’t let the Pit devour me!

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