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Job 38:12
12But you, Job, did you ever command the morning to begin? No! You have never in your whole life told the sun when it should rise.
Job 38:12 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
- New International Version (NIV)“Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place,
- English Standard Version (ESV)"Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place,
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Have you commanded the morning since your days began, And caused the dawn to know its place,
Context of Job 38:12
10I put a border around the sea. I locked it in its place. 11I said to the sea, “This is as far as you can come. You may come no further. Your powerful waves must stop there!” But you, Job, did you ever command the morning to begin? No! You have never in your whole life told the sun when it should rise. 13You have not told the light of day to cover the earth. You have not told it to chase away the wicked things that happen in the night. 14When the light of day comes, people see the land clearly. Its shape and colours show like bright clothes.
Read all of Job 38Job 38:12 word by word
הְֽ֭מִיָּמֶיךָ צִוִּ֣יתָ בֹּ֑קֶר יִדַּ֖עְתָּ הַשַּׁ֣חַר מְקֹמֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 38:12
- Genesis 1:5God called the light ‘day’. He called the dark ‘night’. Evening passed and then it was morning. That was the first day.
- Psalms 74:16Days and nights both belong to you. You put the moon and the sun in their places.
- Psalms 148:3Praise him, sun and moon. Praise him, all bright stars.
- Job 38:4Were you with me when I made the world? If you think you are so clever, tell me all about it!
- Job 8:9We have not lived for very long, so we do not know very much. Our lives are like shadows that quickly disappear.
- Job 15:7You were not the first human to be born. You were not alive when God made the hills.
- Luke 1:78Our God will forgive us because he is very kind. He will send someone from the highest place. When this person comes, it will be like the sunrise for us.
- 2 Peter 1:19As well as that, we have the prophets' messages from long ago. They also show us very clearly that these things are true. The prophets' words are like a light that shines in a dark place. That light continues to shine in the dark until the dawn comes. So you need to think about those messages carefully. Then the morning star will rise and it will bring light deep inside you.
Commentaries on Job 38:12
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12Hast thou commanded the morning - This refers to dawn or morning twilight, occasioned by the refraction of the solar rays by means of the atmosphere; so that we receive the light by degrees, which would otherwise burst at once upon our eyes, and injure, if not destroy, our sight; and by which even the body of the sun himself becomes evident several minutes before he rises above the horizon. Caused the dayspring to know his place - This seems to refer to…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days - That is, in thy lifetime hast thou ordered the light of the morning to shine, and directed its beams over the world? God appeals to this as one of the proofs of his majesty and power - and who can look upon the spreading light of the morning and be insensible to the force and beauty of the appeal? The transition from the ocean to the morning may have been partly because the light of the morning is one of…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12-24Verses 12-24 The Lord questions Job, to convince him of his ignorance, and shame him for his folly in prescribing to God. If we thus try ourselves, we shall soon be brought to own that what we know is nothing in comparison with what we know not. By the tender mercy of our God, the Day-spring from on high has visited us, to give light to those that sit in darkness, whose hearts are turned to it as clay to the seal, 2Co 4:6. God's way in the government of…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-41God challenges Job. Job admits he cannot judge the moral world. God shows Job's ignorance of the natural world's elements related to the realm of heaven, weather, animals, and birds (38:4–21; 22–38; 39–39:30).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 12-1512-15. Passing from creation to phenomena in the existing inanimate world. Hast thou--as God daily does. commanded the morning--to rise. since thy days--since thou hast come into being. his place--It varies in its place of rising from day to day, and yet it has its place each day according to fixed laws.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 38
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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