Job 38:33

Do you know the regulations of the sky? 1 Could you set in place the sky's rule over the earth? 1

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Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?

In Context

32Can you lead the constellations to appear at their proper times? 1 Can you guide the Bear with its children? 1

34Can you raise your voice up to the clouds, 1 so that an abundance of rainwater may cover you? 1

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Cross References

Genesis 1:16God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also.

Job 38:12Have you given orders to the morning, 1 or caused the dawn to know its place, 1

Psalms 148:6He has also established them forever and ever; 1 he issued a decree that will never change. 1

Jeremiah 33:25I, Yahweh, say this, 'If I have not established the covenant of day and night, and if I have not fixed the laws of heaven 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 →

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