Job 38:33

Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens? dost thou determine their rule over the earth?

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?

In Context

32Dost thou bring forth the constellations each in its season? or dost thou guide the Bear with her sons?

34Dost thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that floods of waters may cover thee?

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Cross References

Genesis 1:16And God made the two great lights, the great light to rule the day, and the small light to rule the night, and the stars.

Job 38:12Hast thou since thy days commanded the morning? hast thou caused the dawn to know its place,

Psalms 148:6And he established them for ever and ever; he made [for them] a statute which shall not pass.

Jeremiah 33:25Thus saith Jehovah: If my covenant of day and night [stand] not, if I have not appointed the ordinances of the heavens and the earth,

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 →

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