Job 38:30

38:30 when the waters become hard ¹  like stone,

when the surface of the deep is frozen solid?

Job 38:16

38:16 Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea, ² 

or walked about in the recesses of the deep?

Job 41:32

41:32 It leaves a glistening wake behind it;

one would think the deep had a head of white hair.

Job 28:14

28:14 The deep ³  says, ‘It is not with ⁴  me.’

And the sea says, ‘It is not with me.’

[38:30]  ¹ tn Several suggest that the verb is not from חָבָא (khava’, “to hide”) but from a homonym, “to congeal.” This may be too difficult to support, however.

[38:16]  ² tn Heb “the springs of the sea.” The words “that fill” are supplied in the translation to clarify the meaning of the phrase.

[28:14]  ³ sn The תְּהוֹם (tÿhom) is the “deep” of Gen 1:2, the abyss or primordial sea. It was always understood to be a place of darkness and danger. As remote as it is, it asserts that wisdom is not found there (personification). So here we have the abyss and the sea, then death and destruction – but they are not the places that wisdom resides.

[28:14]  ⁴ tn The בּ (bet) preposition is taken here to mean “with” in the light of the parallel preposition.