Job 38:19
Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
In Context
18Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.
20so you can lead it back to its border? Do you know the paths to its home?
Cross References
Genesis 1:3And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
Deuteronomy 4:19When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars—all the host of heaven—do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.
Psalms 18:11He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.
Psalms 105:28He sent darkness, and it became dark—yet they defied His words.
Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.
Amos 4:13For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights 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 →