New American Standard Bible 2020

Job 38:4-18

4Where were you 1when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell Me, if you 2have understanding,5Who set its 3measurements? Since you know. Or who stretched the measuring line over it?6On what 4were its bases sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone,7When the morning stars sang together And all the 5sons of God shouted for joy?

8“Or who 6enclosed the sea with doors When it went out from the womb, bursting forth;9When I made a cloud its garment, And thick darkness its swaddling bands,10And I 7 8placed boundaries on it And set a bolt and doors,11And I said, ‘As far as this point you shall come, but no farther; And here your proud waves shall stop’?

12“Have you 9ever in your life commanded the morning, And made the dawn know its place,13So that it would take hold of 10the ends of the earth, And 11the wicked would be shaken off from it?14It is changed like clay under the seal; And they stand out like a garment.15 12Their light is withheld from the wicked, And the 13uplifted arm is broken.

16“Have you entered 14the springs of the sea, And walked 15in the depth of the ocean?17Have the gates of death been revealed to you, And have you seen the gates of 16deep darkness?18Have you understood the 17expanse of 18the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.

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Notes

1. Job 38:4 Job 15:7; Ps 104:5; Prov 8:29; 30:4 ↩
2. Job 38:4 Lit know understanding ↩
3. Job 38:5 Prov 8:29; Is 40:12 ↩
4. Job 38:6 Job 26:7 ↩
5. Job 38:7 Job 1:6 ↩
6. Job 38:8 Gen 1:9; Ps 104:6-9; Prov 8:29; Jer 5:22 ↩
7. Job 38:10 Lit broke My decree on it ↩
8. Job 38:10 Gen 1:9; Ps 33:7; 104:9; Prov 8:29; Jer 5:22 ↩
9. Job 38:12 Lit from your days commanded ↩
10. Job 38:13 Job 28:24; 37:3 ↩
11. Job 38:13 Job 34:25, 26; 36:6 ↩
12. Job 38:15 Job 5:14 ↩
13. Job 38:15 Num 15:30; Ps 10:15; 37:17 ↩
14. Job 38:16 Gen 7:11; 8:2; Prov 8:24, 28 ↩
15. Job 38:16 Or in search of the deep ↩
16. Job 38:17 Job 10:21; 26:6; 34:22 ↩
17. Job 38:18 Or width ↩
18. Job 38:18 Job 28:24 ↩

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