New International Reader's Version

Job 38:10-20 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

10. I set limits for it. I put its doors and metal bars in place.

11. I said, 'You can come this far. But you can't come any farther. Here is where your proud waves have to stop.'

12. "Job, have you ever commanded the morning to come? Have you ever shown the sun where to rise?

13. The daylight takes the earth by its edges as if it were a blanket. Then it shakes sinful people out of it.

14. The earth takes shape like clay under a seal. Its features stand out like the different parts of your clothes.

15. Sinners would rather have darkness than light. When the light comes, their power is broken.

16. "Have you traveled to the springs at the bottom of the ocean? Have you walked in its deepest parts?

17. Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of darkness?

18. Do you understand how big the earth is? Tell me, if you know all of those things.

19. "Where does light come from? And where does darkness live?

20. Can you take them to their places? Do you know the paths to their houses?