“Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

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  • WEB World English Bible

    “Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

  • KJV King James Version

    Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?

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Cross-references (4)

Passages linked to Job 38:16 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Proverbs 8:24 When there were no depths, I was born, when there were no springs abounding with water.
  • Job 26:5-6 “The departed spirits tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them. Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
  • Psalms 77:19 Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.
  • Jeremiah 51:36 Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

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Explain this verse (16 sources)

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain If thou art not able to seek out the…

If thou art not able to seek out the depth of the sea, how much less art thou able to comprehend the counsel of God?

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Job 38:16 Hast thou entered into the springs of…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The springs, Heb. the tears, i.e. the several springs…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea?....…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Springs - Hebrew. the tears; the several springs out…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 16. Hast thou entered into the springs of…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Job 38:16. Hast thou entered into the springs of…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea?…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain springs--fountains beneath the sea (Psa 95:4-5).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain Second long strophe — QUESTIONS ARE PROPOUNDED CONCERNING THE…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 16. hast thou entered] Perhaps, didst thou enter? The…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (16) The search of the depth—i.e., the secret recesses…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea?…
The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea?
Paul E. Kretzmann 1924 · Public Domain God’s Majesty in the Forces of NatuRev. 16. Hast…
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