Job 38:12

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Have you ever commanded the morning or shown the dawn its place,

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  • Ps 74:16 : 16 The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the light and the sun.
  • Ps 136:7-8 : 7 To Him who made the great lights, for His steadfast love endures forever. 8 The sun to govern the day, for His steadfast love endures forever.
  • Ps 148:3-5 : 3 Praise Him, sun and moon; praise Him, all you shining stars! 4 Praise Him, highest heavens, and you waters above the skies! 5 Let them praise the name of the LORD, for He commanded, and they were created.
  • Luke 1:78 : 78 Because of our God's tender mercy, the dawn from on high will visit us,
  • 2 Pet 1:19 : 19 And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.
  • Gen 1:5 : 5 God called the light 'day,' and the darkness he called 'night.' And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
  • Job 8:9 : 9 for we were only born yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are but a shadow.
  • Job 15:7 : 7 Were you the first man to be born, or were you brought forth before the hills?
  • Job 38:4 : 4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.
  • Job 38:21 : 21 Surely you know, since you were already born, and the number of your days is great!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 38:4-11
    8 verses
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    4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.

    5 Who determined its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched the measuring line across it?

    6 On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone?

    7 While the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

    8 Or who enclosed the sea with doors when it burst forth from the womb,

    9 when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness,

    10 when I set its boundary and placed bars and doors on it,

    11 and said, 'This far you may come, but no farther; here is where your proud waves must halt.'

  • Job 38:16-25
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    16 Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep?

    17 Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of deepest darkness?

    18 Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this.

    19 Where is the way that light dwells, and where is the place of darkness,

    20 that you may take it to its boundary and recognize the paths to its home?

    21 Surely you know, since you were already born, and the number of your days is great!

    22 Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail,

    23 which I have reserved for a time of trouble, for the day of battle and war?

    24 What is the way to the place where the light is divided, or the east wind scattered over the earth?

    25 Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain and a path for the thunderstorm,

  • Job 38:31-35
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    76%

    31 Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the cords of Orion?

    32 Can you bring out the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Great Bear with its cubs?

    33 Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up their dominion over the earth?

    34 Can you raise your voice to the clouds and cover yourself with a flood of water?

    35 Can you send forth lightning bolts and have them go? Do they report to you, 'Here we are'?

  • 10 He inscribed a circle on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.

  • 13 that it might take hold of the edges of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?

  • Job 37:15-16
    2 verses
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    15 Do you know how God orders them and how He causes the lightning of His clouds to shine?

    16 Do you understand the balancings of the clouds, the wonders of Him who has perfect knowledge?

  • Ps 74:15-17
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    74%

    15 You opened up springs and streams; You dried up ever-flowing rivers.

    16 The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the light and the sun.

    17 You set all the boundaries of the earth; You formed summer and winter.

  • Prov 8:28-29
    2 verses
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    28 When He strengthened the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong.

    29 When He set the boundary for the sea so the waters would not overstep His command, and when He marked out the foundations of the earth.

  • Job 9:7-8
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    7 He commands the sun not to rise, and seals up the stars.

    8 He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.

  • 18 Can you spread out the skies with Him, as firm as a molten mirror?

  • 9 You set a boundary they cannot cross; they will never again cover the earth.

  • 8 You still the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.

  • 17 Your life will shine brighter than noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.

  • 9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,

  • 4 Do you not know this from ancient times, since man was placed on the earth,

  • 14 Then God said, 'Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days, and years,

  • 28 Does the rain have a father, or who gives birth to the dew drops?

  • 5 The sun rises, and the sun sets, and it hurries back to where it rises.

  • 13 Are your wonders known in the darkness, or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

  • 28 Whatever you decide will succeed, and light will shine on your ways.

  • 19 He made the moon to mark the seasons, and the sun knows when to set.

  • 2 Before the sun, light, moon, and stars grow dark, and the clouds return after the rain.

  • 3 Is there any number to His armies? Upon whom does His light not rise?

  • 21 Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been told to you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the foundations of the earth?

  • 9 Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning.