Job 38:16
Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?
a. ASV: Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea?, Or hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?
b. YLT: Hast thou come in to springs of the sea? And in searching the deep Hast thou walked up and down?
c. Classic Amplified: Have you explored the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
d. Septuagint: Or hast thou gone to the source of the sea, and walked in the tracks of the deep?
e. Stone Edition Torah/Prophets/ Writings: Have you penetrated the hidden depths of the sea, or gone to plumb the deep?
1. “Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea…”
a. [Have you] entered [Strong: 935 bow' bo a primitive root; to go or come (in a wide variety of applications):--abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.]
b. into [Strong: 5704 `ad ad properly, the same as 5703 (used as a preposition, adverb or conjunction; especially with a preposition); as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with):--against, and, as, at, before, by (that), even (to), for(-asmuch as), (hither-)to, + how long, into, as long (much) as, (so) that, till, toward, until, when, while, (+ as) yet.]
c. [the] springs [Strong: 5033 nebek nay'-bek from an unused root meaning to burst forth; a fountain:--spring.]
d. [of the] sea [Strong: 3220 yam yawm from an unused root meaning to roar; a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the south:--sea (X -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).]
1). Scientists Describe Job's 'Springs of the Sea'
Modern machines provide our generation with knowledge entirely unknown in yesteryear. Which of our great grandparents saw footage of water rising through hydrothermal vents on the deep sea floor? New research into water circulating from the ocean, into seafloor crustal rocks, and back into the ocean echoes one of the questions God asked Job thousands of years ago. In Job 38:16, God asked, "Have you entered the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in search of the depths?" God was illustrating why Job should humble himself even amidst his extreme suffering. Job got the message. Of course, Job never walked in search of the seafloor's depths, let alone under the seafloor crust, to explore the springs of the sea. He probably didn't even know about the springs. Today's scientists haven't literally walked the paths these deep waters take either, but they do explore them with deep-sea submersibles and computer models. In 2003 Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California Santa Cruz Andrew Fisher discovered that seawater sinks into the seafloor's crust then rises through vents many miles away.2 In the report, he wrote, "Ever since we discovered a place where these processes occur, we have been trying to understand what drives the fluid flow, what it looks like, and what determines the flow direction." To find out what powers these water pumps, researchers created a 3-D virtual version of seafloor crust. They imbued their model with parameters that mimicked the physics of the Juan de Fuca Ridge in the Pacific Ocean. Their results, published in the journal Nature Communications, show how factors beneath the earth help determine where the water enters the crust and where the heated water springs back into the sea—such as the amount of rocky crustal material above the less permeable sediments, the permeability of the rocks at any given location, and the amount of heat from deep beneath the earth. When today's scientists study the processes that power hydrothermal vents and learn about Job's "springs of the sea," they inadvertently confirm the accuracy and wisdom that flows throughout this most ancient book.
2). March 10, 2019 | David F. Coppedge Bible Was Right #529: Springs of the Sea
Long before scientists discovered the springs of the sea, God told Job about them.
Only 40 years ago, J. B. Corliss found the first hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the sea near the Galapagos Islands. Nature recounts the anniversary of that surprise, and the concurrent discovery of complete ecosystems around the hot springs, thriving in total darkness. Four decades have passed since vibrant clusters of giant, metre-long tubeworms, discovered at hot springs on the ocean floor by Corliss et al., were reported in Science. Until then, the ocean floor was considered to be more like a desert than an oasis. Corliss and colleagues didn’t discover underwater hot springs by accident; rather, they were trying to discover whether the hypothesis that such sites existed was correct. Theories on the movements of tectonic plates had set the course for this discovery with the idea that the mountain ranges that girdle the globe on the ocean floor, called spreading centres, are volcanic sites at the boundaries of tectonic plates. A key clue to the existence of underwater hot springs was the unexpectedly low conductive heat flux in the ocean’s crust. Convective heat flow through hot springs could solve the riddle of this missing heat. Warm-water anomalies documented above a spreading centre called Galapagos Ridge guided Corliss et al. to the site at which they discovered underwater hot springs (also called hydrothermal vents). Finding these hot springs was in itself an incredible breakthrough. But what really turned deep-sea science upside down were the unexpected oases of life bathed by those warm waters. During the discovery dive in the submersible vehicle Alvin, geologist Jack Corliss called up to the crew on the surface ship from his position 2.5 kilometres below to ask, “Isn’t the deep ocean supposed to be like a desert?” “Yes,” was the reply. “Well, there’s all these animals down here”, he responded ...The discovery has led to multi-disciplinary investigations, involving geologists, ecologists and biochemists. Some evolutionists speculate that life originated in hydrothermal vents. The article by Cindy Lee Van Dover notes some surprising aspects of these vents: Soon after the initial discoveries at the Galapagos site, a different type of hot spring called a black smoker — which emits metal-rich hydrothermal fluids — was found at another ocean-floor site. Hot-spring ecosystems (Fig. 1) have now been found on sea-floor spreading centres throughout the world. They exist as 1,000 or more submarine oases, strung like minute pearls along the spreading centres. Although numerous, they are a rare habitat in terms of their total area — together, they might all fit on the island of Manhattan, with room to spare. They are ephemeral habitats, too, lasting for years to decades, or possibly centuries, depending on the geological setting. This raises the question of how the invertebrate populations are maintained, and the nature of the biogeographic barriers between populations at hot springs. The life cycles of nearly all invertebrates living in underwater hot springs includes a larval stage that disperses in the water column. Larval ecology, population connectivity, and oceanographic barriers and transport routes are key topics of current research. This implies that the springs open up before life finds them; the life does not ‘evolve’ there. It also implies that organisms, with their larval stages, have amazing abilities to travel long distances in complete darkness, and to sense the heat, in order to colonize newly-formed vents. Another surprise was the diversity of life found at vents: worms, crabs, shrimp, spiders, fish, snails and even octopuses. Their adaptations to these locations at the border of extreme heat and frigid cold surprise biologists. How can life even exist down there? Surprising species and astonishing biological adaptations continue to come to light. Pompeii worms (Alvinella pompejana) live at temperatures as high as 42 °C. These are among the most extreme temperatures endured by any multicellular animal on Earth. The worms challenge us to understand how the proteins in the animals’ bodies are protected from melting. Microorganisms termed Archaea can grow at 121 °C, which is the hottest life known on Earth. ‘Blind’ shrimp (Rimicaris exoculata) sport highly derived ‘eyes’ that are inferred to detect gradients of dim light emitted by the 350 °C fluids of black smokers, which might help the shrimp to avoid being ‘cooked’ by the heat. Yeti crabs (Kiwa tyleri) have hairy claws and legs that might aid them in farming bacteria for nourishment. Scaly-foot snails (Chrysomallon squamiferum) creep on ‘feet’ protected by metal scales of a type not found in other living or fossil molluscs, and offer an inspiration for the design of material for armour.
2. “...or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?”
a. [or hast thou] walked [Strong: 1980 halak haw-lak' akin to 3212; a primitive root; to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively):--(all) along, apace, behave (self), come, (on) continually, be conversant, depart, + be eased, enter, exercise (self), + follow, forth, forward, get, go (about, abroad, along, away, forward, on, out, up and down), + greater, grow, be wont to haunt, lead, march, X more and more, move (self), needs, on, pass (away), be at the point, quite, run (along), + send, speedily, spread, still, surely, + tale-bearer, + travel(-ler), walk (abroad, on, to and fro, up and down, to places), wander, wax, (way-)faring man, X be weak, whirl.]
b. [in the] search [Strong: 2714 cheqer khay'-ker from 2713; examination, enumeration, deliberation:--finding out, number, (un-)search(-able, -ed, out, -ing).]
c. [of the] depth [Strong: 8415 thowm teh-home' or thom {teh-home'}; (usually feminine) from 1949; an abyss (as a surging mass of water), especially the deep (the main sea or the subterranean water-supply):--deep (place), depth.]
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