Job 38:19
Where is the way [to the spot where] the light dwelleth? and the darkness—where is its place,
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
In Context
18Hast thou a clear understanding of the breadth of the earth? Tell it, if thou knowest it all.
20That thou mightest take each to its boundary, and that thou mightest mark the pathways to its house?
Cross References
Genesis 1:3And God said, Let there be light; and there was light.
Deuteronomy 4:19And that thou lift not up thy eyes unto the heavens, and thou see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, and be misled to bow down to them, and to serve them, those which the Lord thy God hath assigned unto all nations under the whole heaven.
Psalms 18:11(18:12) He made darkness his hiding-place, round about him as his pavilion, dark 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 unto the Lord your God glory, before he cause darkness, and before your feet strike upon the mountains of twilight, and [where], while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and change it into gross darkness.
Amos 4:13For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning-dawn [and] darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, — The Lord, 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 →