Job 38:20

18 Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.

19 Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,

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!

22 Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
so you can lead it back to its border? Do you know the paths to its home?
KJV
That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?
WEB
that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?
ASV
That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, And that thou shouldest discern the paths to the house thereof?
DARBY
That thou shouldest take it to its bound, and that thou shouldest know the paths to its house?
BLB
that you may take it to its border, that you may know the paths [to] its home?
ÅB
så du kunne hente det fram til dets område, så du kjente stiene til dets hus?
OTB
så du kan føre det til dets område,
og kjenne stiene til dets bolig?
B1930
så du kunde hente det frem til dets område, så du kjente stiene til dets hus?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Job 26:10

    He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.

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  • Genesis 10:19

    and the borders of Canaan extended from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

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  • Genesis 23:17

    So Ephron’s field at Machpelah near Mamre, the cave that was in it, and all the trees within the boundaries of the field were deeded over

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