16 “Have you
a entered the springs of the sea?
Or have you walked in search of the depths?
‡
17 Have
a the gates of death been revealed to you?
Or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?
‡
18 Have you comprehended the breadth of the earth?
Tell
Me, if you know all this.
19 “Where
is the way
to the dwelling of light?
And darkness, where
is its place,
20 That you may take it to its territory,
That you may know the paths
to its home?
21 Do you know
it, because you were born then,
Or
because the number of your days
is great?
22 “Have you entered
a the treasury of snow,
Or have you seen the treasury of hail,
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23 a Which I have reserved for the time of trouble,
For the day of battle and war?
‡
24 By what way is light
1 diffused,
Or the east wind scattered over the earth?
‡
25 “Who
a has divided a channel for the overflowing
water, Or a path for the thunderbolt,
‡
26 To cause it to rain on a land
where there is no one,
A wilderness in which
there is no man;
27 a To satisfy the desolate waste,
And cause to spring forth the growth of tender grass?
‡
28 a Has the rain a father?
Or who has begotten the drops of dew?
‡
29 From whose womb comes the ice?
And the
a frost of heaven, who gives it birth?
‡
30 The waters harden like stone,
And the surface of the deep is
a frozen.
‡
31 “Can you bind the cluster of the
a Pleiades,
Or loose the belt of Orion?
‡
32 Can you bring out
1 Mazzaroth in its season?
Or can you guide
1 the Great Bear with its cubs?
‡
33 Do you know
a the ordinances of the heavens?
Can you set their dominion over the earth?
‡
34 “Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,
That an abundance of water may cover you?
35 Can you send out lightnings, that they may go,
And say to you, ‘Here we
are! ’?
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
