Job 38:33
Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
In Context
32Do you make Mazzaroth come out in its right time, or are the Bear and its children guided by you?
34Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?
Cross References
Genesis 1:16And God made the two great lights: the greater light to be the ruler of the day, and the smaller light to be the ruler of the night: and he made the stars.
Job 38:12Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;
Psalms 148:6He has put them in their places for ever; he has given them their limits which may not be broken.
Jeremiah 33:25The Lord has said, If I have not made day and night, and if the limits of heaven and earth have not been fixed by me,
Matthew Henry on Job 38:26-41
God's Sovereign Dominion and Goodness. ( b. c. 1520.) 25 Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder; 26 To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man; 27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth? 28 Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew? 29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? 30 The… Read the whole commentary →