Job 38:21

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 15:7 : 7 “Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?
  • Job 38:4 : 4 God’s questions to Job“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you possess understanding!
  • Job 38:12 : 12 Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, or made the dawn know its place,

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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,

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

  • Job 38:22
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    22Have you entered the storehouse of the snow, or seen the armory of the hail,

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

  • Job 38:2-5
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    2“Who is this who darkens counsel with words without knowledge?

    3Get ready for a difficult task like a man; I will question you and you will inform me!

    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?

  • Job 15:7-9
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    78%

    7“Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

    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 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 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?

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  • Job 39:1-2
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    1“Are you acquainted with the way the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch as the wild deer give birth to their young?

    2Do you count the months they must fulfill, and do you know the time they give birth?

  • Job 38:12
    73%

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

  • Job 11:6-8
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    6and reveal to you the secrets of wisdom– for true wisdom has two sides– so that you would know that God has forgiven some of your sins.

    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?

  • Job 10:5-6
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    5Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the years of a mortal,

    6that you must search out my iniquity, and inquire about my sin,

  • Job 8:7-8
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    7Your beginning will seem so small, since your future will flourish.

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

  • Job 42:3-4
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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.

    4You said,‘Pay attention, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer 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.”

  • Isa 48:7-8
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    7Now they come into being, not in the past; before today you did not hear about them, so you could not say,‘Yes, I know about them.’

    8You did not hear, you do not know, you were not told beforehand. For I know that you are very deceitful; you were labeled a rebel from birth.

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

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    3I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

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    27I know where you live, and everything you do.

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    28I know where you live and everything you do and how you rage against me.

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

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    10Do not say,“Why were the old days better than these days?” for it is not wise to ask that.

  • Job 14:5
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    5Since man’s days are determined, the number of his months is under your control; you have set his limit and he cannot pass it.

  • Job 34:33
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    33Is it your opinion that God should recompense it, because you reject this? But you must choose, and not I, so tell us what you know.

  • 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?

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    3Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

  • Isa 40:21
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    21Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told to you since the very beginning? Have you not understood from the time the earth’s foundations were made?

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    5Just as you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones form in the womb of a pregnant woman, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

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    15Will you keep to the old path that evil men have walked–

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    37Who by wisdom can count the clouds, and who can tip over the water jars of heaven,

  • Job 11:17
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    17And life will be brighter than the noonday; though there be darkness, it will be like the morning.

  • Job 22:13
    69%

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

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    3How you have advised the one without wisdom, and abundantly revealed your insight!