Job 38:12
Hast thou commanded morning since thy days? Causest thou the dawn to know its place?
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
In Context
11And say, 'Hitherto come thou, and add not, And a command is placed On the pride of thy billows.'
13To take hold on the skirts of the earth, And the wicked are shaken out of it,
Cross References
Job 8:9(For of yesterday we [are], and we know not, For a shadow [are] our days on earth.)
Job 24:16He hath dug in the darkness — houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.
Job 38:21Thou hast known — for then thou art born And the number of thy days [are] many!
Psalms 136:7To Him making great lights, For to the age [is] His kindness.
Luke 1:78Through the tender mercies of our God, In which the rising from on high did look upon us,
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 →