Job 38:19

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Where is the way where light dwelleth? 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 the 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 the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16 And God made 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 the 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, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
• Job 38:12-13 : 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?
• Ps 18:11 : 11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
• Ps 104:20 : 20 Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
• Ps 105:28 : 28 He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
• Isa 45:7 : 7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
• Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to the LORD 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 GOD.
• 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, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.
• Matt 27:45 : 45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
• John 1:9 : 9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
• John 8:12 : 12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.