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Job 38:12

Did you, after your birth, command the birth of the sun and show the sunrise its place?

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;

In Context

11And I said: “This far you will approach, and you will proceed no further, and here you will break your swelling waves.”

13And did you hold the extremities of the earth, shaking them, and have you shaken the impious out of it?

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Cross References

Job 8:9(of course, we are but of yesterday and are ignorant that our days on earth are like a shadow,)

Job 24:16He passes through houses in the nighttime, just as they had agreed among themselves in the daytime; and they are ignorant of the light.

Job 38:21So then, did you know when you were to be born? And did you know the number of your days?

Psalms 136:7O Lord, call to mind the sons of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem, who say: “Despoil it, despoil it, even to its foundation.”

Luke 1:78through the heart of the mercy of our God, by which, descending from on high, he has visited 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 →

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