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Verse         Translation Text
Job 38:20 Strong Concordance That thou shouldest take [03947] it to the bound [01366] thereof, and that thou shouldest know [0995] the paths [05410] to the house [01004] thereof?
  King James That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Dost thou know its place so well as to be able to guide, ("take" as in Isa 36:17) it to (but UMBREIT, "reach it in") its own boundary, that is, the limit between light and darkness (Job 26:10)?
 
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10 He hath compassed [02328] the waters [06440] [04325] with bounds [02706], until the day [0216] and night [02822] come to an end [08503].
17 Until I come [0935] and take you away [03947] to a land [0776] like your own land [0776], a land [0776] of corn [01715] and wine [08492], a land [0776] of bread [03899] and vineyards [03754].