Job 38:19
Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is the place of it
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
In Context
18Have thou comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if thou know it all.
Cross References
Genesis 1:3And God said, Let there be light, and there was light.
Deuteronomy 4:19And lest thou lift up thine eyes to heaven, and when thou see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of heaven, thou be drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which LORD thy God has allotted to all the peoples
Psalms 18:11He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion round about him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Psalms 105:28He sent darkness, and made it dark. And they rebelled against his words.
Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains. And, while ye look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.
Amos 4:13For, lo, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads upon the high places of the earth--LORD, the God of hosts, is his name.
Matthew Henry on Job 38:13-25
Works of God. ( b. c. 1520.) 12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; 13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it? 14 It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment. 15 And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken. 16 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth? 17 Have the gates of death been opened unto thee?… Read the whole commentary →