Job 38:16
Have you entered the sources of the sea? Have you explored their hidden depths?
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?
In Context
15The ‘light’ of the wicked is taken away from them; their acts of violence are stopped.
17Have you been shown where the gates of death are? Have you seen the gates of utter darkness?
Cross References
Job 41:32It leaves a glistening wake behind it as if the sea had white hair.
Proverbs 8:24I was born when there were no ocean depths, when there were no springs pouring out water.
Matthew Henry on Job 38:13-25
Works of God. ( b. c. 1520.) 12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; 13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it? 14 It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment. 15 And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken. 16 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth? 17 Have the gates of death been opened unto thee?… Read the whole commentary →