Job 38:33
Have you known the statutes of the heavens? Or do you appoint || Its dominion in the earth?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
In Context
34Do you lift up your voice to the cloud, || And abundance of water covers you?
Cross References
Genesis 1:16And God makes the two great luminaries, the great luminary for the rule of the day, and the small luminary—and the stars—for the rule of the night;
Job 38:12Have you commanded morning since your days? Do you cause the dawn to know its place?
Psalms 148:6And He establishes them forever and for all time, || He gave a statute, and they do not pass over.
Jeremiah 33:25Thus said YHWH: “If My covenant [is] not with day and night, || [And if] I have not appointed the statutes of the heavens and 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 →