Job 38:12
Didst thou ever, in all thy days, command the morning; didst thou ever assign the morning-dawn its place:
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
In Context
13That it might lay hold of the ends of the earth, so that the wicked might be shaken out therefrom?
Cross References
Job 8:9For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because a [mere] shadow are our days upon earth;—
Job 24:16They break into houses in the dark, in the daytime they lock themselves in: they know not the light.
Job 38:21Thou [surely] knowest it; because thou wast then born, and the number of thy days is great!
Psalms 136:7To him that made great lights; for to eternity endureth his kindness;
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 →