Job 38:12
Have you commanded morning since your days? Do you cause the dawn to know its place?
Literal Standard 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 say, To here you come, and no more, || And a command is placed || On the pride of your billows.
13To take hold on the skirts of the earth, || And the wicked are shaken out of it,
Cross References
Job 8:9For we [are] of yesterday, and we do not know, || For our days [are] a shadow on earth.
Job 24:16He has dug in the darkness—houses; By day they shut themselves up, || They have not known light.
Job 38:21You have known—for then you are born, || And the number of your days [are] many!
Psalms 136:7To Him making great lights, || For His kindness [is] for all time.
Luke 1:78Through the yearnings of our God, || In which the rising from on high looked on 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 →