Job 38:19
17 Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
18 Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.
Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
20 That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?
21 Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy 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 bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.
Read in contextMatthew 27:45
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
Read in contextIsaiah 45:7
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: 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, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.
Read in contextPsalms 104:20
Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 4:19
And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
Read in contextPsalms 18:11
He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
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