Job 38:19
Where is the way to where light dwelleth? and the darkness, where is its place,
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
In Context
18Hath thine understanding compassed the breadths of the earth? Declare if thou knowest it all.
20That thou shouldest take it to its bound, and that thou shouldest know the paths to its house?
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 the heavens, and see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, the whole host of heaven, and be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, which Jehovah thy God hath assigned unto all peoples under the whole heaven.
Psalms 18:11He made darkness his secret place, his tent round about him: darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Psalms 105:28He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to Jehovah your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the mountains of twilight; and ye shall look for light, but he will turn it into the shadow of death, and make [it] gross darkness.
Amos 4:13For behold, he who formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, who maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, Jehovah, 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 →