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Job Chapter 38 verse 16 Holy Bible

ASV Job 38:16

Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?
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BBE Job 38:16

Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?
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DARBY Job 38:16

Hast thou entered as far as the springs of the sea? and hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?
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KJV Job 38:16

Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?
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WBT Job 38:16

Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?
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WEB Job 38:16

"Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
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YLT Job 38:16

Hast thou come in to springs of the sea? And in searching the deep Hast thou walked up and down?
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 16. - Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? The emphasis is on the word "springs," which means sources, origin, or deepest depths (see the Septuagint, which has πηγή, and the Vulgate, which has profunda). Canst thou go to the bottom of anything, explore its secrets, explain its cause and origin? Or hast thou walked in the search (rather, the deep places) of the depth? Art thou not as ignorant as other men of all these remote and secret things? Physical science is now attempting the material exploration of the ocean-depths, but "deep-sea dredgings" bring us no nearer to the origin, cause, or mode of creation of the great watery mass.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(16) The search of the depth--i.e., the secret recesses of it. The "springs of the sea" are rather, perhaps, the mazes, intricacies, &c. of the trackless, pathless deep. This leads to the cognate thought of the bottomless pit of death (Job 38:17).