Job 38:19

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֵי־זֶ֣ה הַ֭דֶּרֶךְ יִשְׁכָּן־א֑וֹר וְ֝חֹ֗שֶׁךְ אֵי־זֶ֥ה מְקֹמֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

Where-zeh the-derekə yiškān-ʾôr and-ḥōšek where-zeh məqōmô?

Grammar Details

• *ʾêy*: interrogative adverb - where?
• *zeh*: demonstrative pronoun, masculine singular - this
• *ha-*: definite article - the
• *derekə*: noun, masculine singular - way/path
• *yiškān*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - it dwells
• *ʾôr*: noun, masculine singular - light
• *wə*: conjunction - and
• *ḥōšek*: noun, masculine singular - darkness
• *məqōmô*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - its place

Word Meanings

• *derekə*: way/path/road
• *yiškān*: it dwells/it abides/it resides
• *ʾôr*: light/daylight/illumination
• *ḥōšek*: darkness/obscurity
• *məqōmô*: its place/its location

Referenced Verses

• Gen 1:3-4 : 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
• Gen 1:14-18 : 14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years: 15 and let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 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. 17 And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
• Deut 4:19 : 19 and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of heaven, thou be drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Jehovah thy God hath allotted unto all the peoples under the whole heaven.
• 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 18:11 : 11 He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion round about him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
• Ps 104:20 : 20 Thou makest darkness, and it is night, Wherein all the beasts of the forest creep forth.
• Ps 105:28 : 28 He sent darkness, and made it dark; And they rebelled not against his words.
• Isa 45:7 : 7 I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I am Jehovah, that doeth all these things.
• Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to Jehovah your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
• Ezek 32:8 : 8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord Jehovah.
• Amos 4:13 : 13 For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought; that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth— Jehovah, the God of hosts, is his name.
• Matt 27:45 : 45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
• John 1:9 : 9 There was the true light, [even the light] which lighteth every man, coming into the world.
• John 8:12 : 12 Again therefore Jesus spake unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not {G3361} walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life.