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Job 38:17-19
New English Translation

17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you?[a]
Have you seen the gates of deepest darkness?[b]
18 Have you considered the vast expanses of the earth?
Tell me, if you know it all.
19 “In what direction[c] does light reside,

and darkness, where is its place,

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Footnotes

  1. Job 38:17 tn Heb “uncovered to you.”
  2. Job 38:17 tn Some still retain the traditional phrase “shadow of death” in the English translation (cf. NIV). The reference is to the entrance to Sheol (see Job 10:21).
  3. Job 38:19 tn The interrogative with דֶרֶךְ (derekh) means “in what road” or “in what direction.”
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