Holy Scripture
Job 38:16
A church father on this verse
“Hast thou entered into the depth of the sea, and hast thou walked in the lowest parts of the abyss? As if He said, As I, Who not only sought the sea, that is this world, by assuming the flesh and soul of a man, but also descended by that flesh voluntarily subjected to death, to the bottom of the pit, as if to the dept…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
16Or hast thou gone to the source of the sea, And walked in the tracks of the deep?
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In context
14Or didst thou take clay of the ground, and form a living creature, And set it with the power of speech upon the earth?
15And hast thou removed light from the ungodly, And crushed the arm of the proud?
— Job 38:16 —
17And do the gates of death open to thee for fear; And did the porters of hell quake when they saw thee?
18And hast thou been instructed in the breadth of the whole earth under heaven? Tell me now, what is the extent of it?