New King James Version
Job 38:12
12“Have you commanded the morning since your days began, And caused the dawn to know its place,
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 Living Translation (NLT)“Have you ever commanded the morning to appear and caused the dawn to rise in the east?
Context of Job 38:12
10When I fixed My limit for it, And set bars and doors; 11When I said, ‘This far you may come, but no farther, And here your proud waves must stop!’ “Have you commanded the morning since your days began, And caused the dawn to know its place, 13That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, And the wicked be shaken out of it? 14It takes on form like clay under a seal, And stands out like a garment.
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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, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.
- Psalms 74:16The day is Yours, the night also is Yours; You have prepared the light and the sun.
- Psalms 136:7To Him who made great lights, For His mercy endures forever—
- Psalms 148:3Praise Him, sun and moon; Praise Him, all you stars of light!
- Job 38:4“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.
- Job 8:9For we were born yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days on earth are a shadow.
- Job 15:7“Are you the first man who was born? Or were you made before the hills?
- Luke 1:78Through the tender mercy of our God, With which the Dayspring from on high has visited us;
- 2 Peter 1:19And so we have the prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts;
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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