Job 38:19
Where [is] this—the way light dwells? And darkness, where [is] this—its place?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
In Context
18You have understanding, || Even to the broad places of earth! Declare—if you have known it all.
20That you take it to its boundary, || And that you understand the paths of its house.
Cross References
Genesis 1:3and God says, “Let light be”; and light is.
Deuteronomy 4:19And lest you lift up your eyes to the heavens, and have seen the sun, and the moon, and the stars, all the host of the heavens, and have been drawn away, and have bowed yourself to them and served them, which your God YHWH has apportioned to all the peoples under all the heavens.
Psalms 18:11He makes darkness His secret place, || Around Him His dwelling place, || Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Psalms 105:28He has sent darkness, and it is dark, || And they have not provoked His word.
Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to your God YHWH, || Before He causes darkness, || And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, || And you have waited for light, || And He has made it for death-shade, || And has appointed [it] for thick darkness.
Amos 4:13For behold, the Former of mountains, and Creator of wind, || And the Declarer to man what [is] His thought, || He is making dawn obscurity, || And is treading on high places of earth, || YHWH, 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 →