Job 38:12
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy dayes? hast thou caused the morning to knowe his place,
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
In Context
11And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall it stay thy proude waues.
13That it might take hold of the corners of the earth, and that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
Cross References
Job 8:9(For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant: for our dayes vpon earth are but a shadowe)
Job 24:16They digge through houses in the darke, which they marked for themselues in the daye: they knowe not the light.
Job 38:21Knewest thou it, because thou wast then borne, and because the nomber of thy dayes is great?
Psalms 136:7Which made great lightes: for his mercie endureth for euer:
Luke 1:78Through ye tender mercy of our God, wherby the day spring from an hie hath visited vs,
Matthew Henry on Job 38:5-12
The Creation of the World. ( b. c. 1520.) 4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. 5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? 6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; 7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? 8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? 9 When I made the… Read the whole commentary →