Job 38:19
“What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,
World English Bible Catholic
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 comprehended the earth in its width? Declare, if you know it all.
20that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?
Cross References
Genesis 1:3God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
Deuteronomy 4:19and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
Psalms 18:11He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Psalms 105:28He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn’t rebel against his words.
Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.
Amos 4:13For, behold, he who forms the mountains, creates the wind, declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: The LORD, the God of Armies, 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 →