Job 38:20

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 10:19 : 19 and the borders of Canaan extended from Sidon all the way to Gerar as far as Gaza, and all the way to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
  • Gen 23:17 : 17 So Abraham secured Ephron’s field in Machpelah, next to Mamre, including the field, the cave that was in it, and all the trees that were in the field and all around its border,
  • Job 26:10 : 10 He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters as a boundary between light and darkness.

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    16Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea, or walked about in the recesses of the deep?

    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,

  • Job 38:21-22
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    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,

  • Job 38:4-6
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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?

    6On what were its bases set, or who laid its cornerstone–

  • Job 28:20
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    20God Alone Has Wisdom“But wisdom– where does it come from? Where is the place of understanding?

  • Job 28:12
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    12No Price Can Buy Wisdom“But wisdom– where can it be found? Where is the place of understanding?

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

  • Job 20:4
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    4“Surely you know that it has been from old, ever since humankind was placed on the earth,

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

  • Job 28:23
    74%

    23God understands the way to it, and he alone knows its place.

  • Job 21:28-29
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    28For you say,‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked lived?’

    29Have you never questioned those who travel the roads? Do you not recognize their accounts–

  • Job 38:12-13
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    74%

    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 11:7-8
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    7“Can you discover the essence of God? Can you find out the perfection of the Almighty?

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

  • Prov 5:6
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    6Lest she should make level the path leading to life, her paths have wandered, but she is not able to discern it.

  • Job 22:15
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    15Will you keep to the old path that evil men have walked–

  • Job 38:2
    73%

    2“Who is this who darkens counsel with words without knowledge?

  • Job 37:15-16
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    15Do you know how God commands them, how he makes lightning flash in his storm cloud?

    16Do you know about the balancing of the clouds, that wondrous activity of him who is perfect in knowledge?

  • Job 3:23
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    23Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

  • Prov 2:20
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    20So you will walk in the way of good people, and will keep on the paths of the righteous.

  • Job 8:8
    72%

    8“For inquire now of the former generation, and pay attention to the findings of their ancestors;

  • Job 15:8-9
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    8Do you listen in on God’s secret council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

    9What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand that we don’t understand?

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

  • Ps 139:3
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    3You carefully observe me when I travel or when I lie down to rest; you are aware of everything I do.

  • Prov 2:9
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    9Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity– every good way.

  • Job 22:13
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    13But you have said,‘What does God know? Does he judge through such deep darkness?

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    27then he looked at wisdom and assessed its value; he established it and examined it closely.

  • Job 42:3
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    3you asked,‘Who is this who darkens counsel without knowledge?’ But I have declared without understanding things too wonderful for me to know.

  • Prov 20:24
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    24The steps of a person are ordained by the LORD– so how can anyone understand his own way?

  • Job 28:3
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    3Man puts an end to the darkness; he searches the farthest recesses for the ore in the deepest darkness.

  • Job 30:23
    71%

    23I know that you are bringing me to death, to the meeting place for all the living.

  • Prov 2:5
    71%

    5then you will understand how to fear the LORD, and you will discover knowledge about God.

  • Job 19:8
    71%

    8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.

  • Job 37:18-19
    2 verses
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    18will you, with him, spread out the clouds, solid as a mirror of molten metal?

    19Tell us what we should say to him. We cannot prepare a case because of the darkness.

  • Job 38:10
    71%

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

  • Job 38:35-36
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    71%

    35Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go? Will they say to you,‘Here we are’?

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

  • Isa 37:28
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    28I know where you live and everything you do and how you rage against me.

  • Job 5:27
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    27Look, we have investigated this, so it is true. Hear it, and apply it for your own good.”

  • Job 22:28
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    28Whatever you decide on a matter, it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.