KJV King James Version
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; [and] caused the dayspring to know his place;
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Job 38:12
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; [and] caused the dayspring to know his place;
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,
WEB World English Bible
“Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place;
ASV American Standard Version
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days began, And caused the dayspring to know its place;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Hast thou commanded morning since thy days? Causest thou the dawn to know its place?
Surrounding context — Job 38
9 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
10 And brake up for it my decreed [place], and set bars and doors,
11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
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.
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Psalm 74:16The day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.Psalm 148:3-5Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.Genesis 1:5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.Job 8:9(For we [are but of] yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow:)Luke 1:78Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,2 Peter 1:19We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:Psalm 136:7-8To him that made great lights: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:Job 15:7[Art] thou the first man [that] was born? or wast thou made before the hills?Job 38:21Knowest thou [it], because thou wast then born? or [because] the number of thy days [is] great?Job 38:4Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
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