Job 38:33

American Standard Version (1901)

Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens? Canst thou establish the dominion thereof in the earth?

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  • Jer 31:35-36 : 35 Thus saith Jehovah, who giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirreth up the sea, so that the waves thereof roar; Jehovah of hosts is his name: 36 If these ordinances depart from before me, saith Jehovah, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.
  • Jer 33:25 : 25 Thus saith Jehovah: If my covenant of day and night [stand] not, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
  • Gen 1:16 : 16 And God made the two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also.
  • Gen 8:22 : 22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
  • Job 38:12-13 : 12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days [began], [And] caused the dayspring to know its place; 13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, And the wicked be shaken out of it?
  • Ps 119:90-91 : 90 Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: Thou hast established the earth, and it abideth. 91 They abide this day according to thine ordinances; For all things are thy servants.
  • Ps 148:6 : 6 He hath also established them for ever and ever: He hath made a decree which shall not pass away.

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