Job 38:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 74:16 : 16 The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun.
  • Ps 136:7-8 : 7 To him who made great lights: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. 8 The sun to have rule by day: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
  • Ps 148:3-5 : 3 Give praise to him, you sun and moon: give praise to him, all you stars of light. 4 Give praise to him, you highest heavens, and you waters which are over the heavens. 5 Let them give praise to the name of the Lord: for he gave the order, and they were made.
  • Luke 1:78 : 78 Because of the loving mercies of our God, by which the dawn from heaven has come to us,
  • 2 Pet 1:19 : 19 And so the words of the prophets are made more certain; and it is well for you to give attention to them as to a light shining in a dark place, till the dawn comes and the morning star is seen in your hearts;
  • Gen 1:5 : 5 Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
  • Job 8:9 : 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)
  • Job 15:7 : 7 Were you the first man to come into the world? or did you come into being before the hills?
  • Job 38:4 : 4 Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.
  • Job 38:21 : 21 No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great.

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  • Job 38:4-11
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    4 Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.

    5 By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?

    6 On what were its pillars based, or who put down its angle-stone,

    7 When the morning stars made songs together, and all the sons of the gods gave cries of joy?

    8 Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;

    9 When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it,

    10 Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;

    11 And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?

  • Job 38:16-25
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    76%

    16 Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?

    17 Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?

    18 Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all.

    19 Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

    20 So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house?

    21 No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great.

    22 Have you come into the secret place of snow, or have you seen the store-houses of the ice-drops,

    23 Which I have kept for the time of trouble, for the day of war and fighting?

    24 Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?

    25 By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder;

  • Job 38:31-35
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    31 Are the bands of the Pleiades fixed by you, or are the cords of Orion made loose?

    32 Do you make Mazzaroth come out in its right time, or are the Bear and its children guided by you?

    33 Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?

    34 Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?

    35 Do you send out the thunder-flames, so that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?

  • Job 26:10
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    10 By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.

  • Job 38:13
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    13 So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?

  • Job 37:15-16
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    15 Have you knowledge of God's ordering of his works, how he makes the light of his cloud to be seen?

    16 Have you knowledge of the balancings of the clouds, the wonders of him who has all wisdom?

  • Ps 74:15-17
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    15 You made valleys for fountains and springs; you made the ever-flowing rivers dry.

    16 The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun.

    17 By you all the limits of the earth were fixed; you have made summer and winter.

  • Prov 8:28-29
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    28 When he made strong the skies overhead: when the fountains of the deep were fixed:

    29 When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth:

  • Job 9:7-8
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    7 Who gives orders to the sun, and it does not give its light; and who keeps the stars from shining.

    8 By whose hand the heavens were stretched out, and who is walking on the waves of the sea:

  • Job 37:18
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    18 Will you, with him, make the skies smooth, and strong as a polished looking-glass?

  • Ps 104:9
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    9 You made a limit over which they might not go, so that the earth would never again be covered by them.

  • Ps 65:8
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    8 Those in the farthest parts of the earth have fear when they see your signs: the outgoings of the morning and evening are glad because of you.

  • Job 11:17
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    17 And your life will be brighter than day; though it is dark, it will become like the morning.

  • Ps 139:9
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    9 If I take the wings of the morning, and go to the farthest parts of the sea;

  • Job 20:4
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    4 Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth,

  • Gen 1:14
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    14 And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years:

  • Job 38:28
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    28 Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist?

  • Eccl 1:5
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    5 The sun comes up and the sun goes down, and goes quickly back to the place where he came up.

  • Ps 88:13
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    13 But to you did I send up my cry, O Lord; in the morning my prayer came before you.

  • Job 22:28
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    28 Your purposes will come about, and light will be shining on your ways.

  • Ps 104:19
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    19 He made the moon for a sign of the divisions of the year; teaching the sun the time of its going down.

  • Eccl 12:2
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    2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not dark, and the clouds come not back after the rain;

  • Job 25:3
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    3 Is it possible for his armies to be numbered? and on whom is not his light shining?

  • Isa 40:21
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    21 Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? has not news of it been given to you from the first? has it not been clear to you from the time when the earth was placed on its base?

  • Job 3:9
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    9 Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.