Job 38:12
Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
In Context
11And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?
13So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?
Cross References
Job 8:9(For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)
Job 24:16In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.
Job 38:21No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great.
Psalms 136:7To him who made great lights: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Luke 1:78Because of the loving mercies of our God, by which the dawn from heaven has come to us,
Matthew Henry on Job 38:5-12
The Creation of the World. ( b. c. 1520.) 4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. 5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? 6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; 7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? 8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? 9 When I made the… Read the whole commentary →