New International Version

Job 38:11-21 New International Version (NIV)

11. when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt’?

12. “Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place,

13. that it might take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it?

14. The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features stand out like those of a garment.

15. The wicked are denied their light, and their upraised arm is broken.

16. “Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep?

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

18. Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this.

19. “What is the way to the abode of light? And where does darkness reside?

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

21. Surely you know, for you were already born! You have lived so many years!