¹² ‘Have you commanded the morning since your days began,
    and caused the dawn to know its place,
¹³ so that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth,
    and the wicked be shaken out of it?
¹⁴ It is changed like clay under the seal,
    and it is dyed^[a] like a garment.
¹⁵ Light is withheld from the wicked,
    and their uplifted arm is broken.

¹⁶ ‘Have you entered into the springs of the sea,
    or walked in the recesses of the deep?
¹⁷ Have the gates of death been revealed to you,
    or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
¹⁸ Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth?
    Declare, if you know all this.

¹⁹ ‘Where is the way to the dwelling of light,
    and where is the place of darkness,
²⁰ that you may take it to its territory
    and that you may discern the paths to its home?
²¹ Surely you know, for you were born then,
    and the number of your days is great!