Job 38:13
Have you ever told the dawn to spread out over the whole earth, with the result that wicked people run away from the light?
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
In Context
12“Job, have you ever commanded the morning to begin? Have you ever told the dawn to start a new day?
Cross References
Exodus 14:27So Moses/I stretched out his/my arm, and as the sun was rising, the water returned to its normal level. The Egyptians tried to escape, but Yahweh hurled them back into the sea.
Job 24:17All of those people want to do their evil things at night, not in the morning when it is light, because they are not afraid of the things that happen during the night that terrify others.”
Psalms 19:4But what they declare about God goes throughout the world, and even people who live in the most distant/remote places on earth can know it. The sun is in the skies where God placed it [MET];
Psalms 104:21At night the young lions roar as they seek their prey, but they depend on you to give them food.
Psalms 139:9If I had wings and flew very far east [MTY], or if I flew west and made a place to live on an island in the ocean,
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 →