Holy Scripture

Job 38:20

A church father on this verse
“Tell Me, if thou knowest all things, in what path the light dwelleth, and what is the place of darkness? that thou mayest take each of them to the bounds thereof, and understand the paths to the house thereof. Blessed Job is tried with a weighty question, in that he is examined as to the way of light and the place of…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXIX

Source: Septuagint

Original

20If thou couldest bring me to their utmost boundaries, And if also thou knowest their paths;

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18And hast thou been instructed in the breadth of the whole earth under heaven? Tell me now, what is the extent of it?

19And in what kind of a land does the light dwell? And of what kind is the place of darkness?

— Job 38:20 —

21I know then that thou wert born at that time, And the number of thy years is great.

22But hast thou gone to the treasures of snow? And hast thou seen the treasures of hail?

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