Job 38:19
17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
18 Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.
Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,
20 so you can lead it back to its border? Do you know the paths to its home?
21 Surely you know, for you were already born! And the number of your days is great!
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,
- KJV
- Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
- WEB
- “What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,
- ASV
- Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
- DARBY
- Where is the way to where light dwelleth? and the darkness, where is its place,
- BLB
- Where [is] this way [to] the dwelling of light? And of darkness, where [is] this its place,
- ÅB
- Hvor er veien dit hvor lyset bor? Og mørket - hvor er dets sted,
- OTB
- Hvor er veien til lysets bolig?
Og hvor bor mørket, - B1930
- Hvor er veien dit hvor lyset bor? Og mørket - hvor er dets sted,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ezekiel 32:8
All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you, and I will bring darkness upon your land,’ declares the Lord GOD.
Read in contextMatthew 27:45
From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.
Read in contextIsaiah 45:7
I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
Read in contextGenesis 1:3–4
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
Read in contextAmos 4:13
For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth— the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”
Read in contextPsalms 104:20
You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 4:19
When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars—all the host of heaven—do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.
Read in contextPsalms 18:11
He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.
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