"Chapter 17—Poetry and Song “Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.” The earliest as well as the most sublime of poetic utterances known to man are found in the Scriptures. Before the oldest of the world's poets had sung, the shepherd of Midian recorded those words of God to Job—in their majesty unequaled, unapproached, by the loftiest productions of human genius: Ed 159"
"Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage."
EGW directly quotes Psalms 119:54.
"“Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? ... Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth; ... When I made the cloud the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddling band for it, And prescribed for it My decree, And set bars and doors, And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; And here shall thy proud waves be stayed? Ed 159.2"
"Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding."
EGW directly quotes Job 38:4.
"Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?"
EGW directly quotes Job 38:8-11.
"“Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days began, And caused the dayspring to know its place? ... Ed 159.3"
"Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;"
EGW directly quotes Job 38:12.
"“Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep? Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? Or hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death? Hast thou comprehended the breadth of the earth? Declare, if thou knowest it all. Ed 159.4"
"Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?"
EGW directly quotes Job 38:16, making it a clear explicit allusion.
"“Where is the way to the dwelling of light, And as for darkness, where is the place thereof? ... Ed 159.5"
"Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,"
EGW directly quotes Job 38:19, making it a clear explicit allusion.