Job 38:21
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Didst thou know then that thou shouldst be born? and didst thou know the number of thy days?

Job 38:4,12 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? tell me if thou hast understanding. . . .

Job 15:7 Art thou the first man that was born, or wast thou made before the hills?

Context
God Challenges Job
20That thou mayst bring every thing to its own bounds, and understand the paths of the house thereof. 21Didst thou know then that thou shouldst be born? and didst thou know the number of thy days?22Hast thou entered into the storehouses of the snow, or hast thou beheld the treasures of the hail:…
Cross References
Job 15:7
Art thou the first man that was born, or wast thou made before the hills?

Job 38:22
Hast thou entered into the storehouses of the snow, or hast thou beheld the treasures of the hail:

Lexicon
Surely you know,
יָ֭דַעְתָּ (yā·ḏa‘·tā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3045: To know

for
כִּי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

you were already
אָ֣ז (’āz)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 227: At that time, place, therefore

born!
תִּוָּלֵ֑ד (tiw·wā·lêḏ)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

And the number
וּמִסְפַּ֖ר (ū·mis·par)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 4557: A number, definite, indefinite, narration

of your days
יָמֶ֣יךָ (yā·me·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3117: A day

is great!
רַבִּֽים׃ (rab·bîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7227: Much, many, great


Additional Translations
Surely you know, for you were already born! And the number of your days is great!Know you it, because you were then born? or because the number of your days is great?

Doubtless , thou knowest, for thou wast then born, And the number of thy days is great!

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

Thou knowest, for thou wast then born, and the number of thy days is great!

Doubtless, thou knowest, for thou wast then born, and the number of thy days is great!

Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great?

Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!

Thou hast known -- for then thou art born And the number of thy days are many!
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