Job 38:12

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Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, or made the dawn know its place,

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 74:16 : 16 You established the cycle of day and night; you put the moon and sun in place.
  • Ps 136:7-8 : 7 to the one who made the great lights, for his loyal love endures, 8 the sun to rule by day, for his loyal love endures,
  • Ps 148:3-5 : 3 Praise him, O sun and moon! Praise him, all you shiny stars! 4 Praise him, O highest heaven, and you waters above the sky! 5 Let them praise the name of the LORD, for he gave the command and they came into existence.
  • Luke 1:78 : 78 Because of our God’s tender mercy the dawn will break upon us from on high
  • 2 Pet 1:19 : 19 Moreover, we possess the prophetic word as an altogether reliable thing. You do well if you pay attention to this as you would to a light shining in a murky 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“night.” There was evening, and there was morning, marking the first day.
  • Job 8:9 : 9 For we were born yesterday and do not have knowledge, since our days on earth are but a shadow.
  • Job 15:7 : 7 “Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?
  • Job 38:4 : 4 God’s questions to Job“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you possess understanding!
  • Job 38:21 : 21 You know, for you were born before them; and the number of your days is great!

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  • Job 38:4-11
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    4God’s questions to Job“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you possess understanding!

    5Who set its measurements– if you know– or who stretched a measuring line across it?

    6On what were its bases set, or who laid its cornerstone–

    7when the morning stars sang in chorus, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

    8“Who shut up the sea with doors when it burst forth, coming out of the womb,

    9when I made the storm clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band,

    10when I prescribed its limits, and set in place its bolts and doors,

    11when I said,‘To here you may come and no farther, here your proud waves will be confined’?

  • Job 38:16-25
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    16Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea, or walked about in the recesses of the deep?

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

    18Have you considered the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know it all!

    19“In what direction does light reside, and darkness, where is its place,

    20that you may take them to their borders and perceive the pathways to their homes?

    21You know, for you were born before them; and the number of your days is great!

    22Have you entered the storehouse of the snow, or seen the armory of the hail,

    23which I reserve for the time of trouble, for the day of war and battle?

    24In what direction is lightning dispersed, or the east winds scattered over the earth?

    25Who carves out a channel for the heavy rains, and a path for the rumble of thunder,

  • Job 38:31-35
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    31Can you tie the bands of the Pleiades, or release the cords of Orion?

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

    33Do you know the laws of the heavens, or can you set up their rule over the earth?

    34Can you raise your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

    35Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go? Will they say to you,‘Here we are’?

  • Job 26:10
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    10He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters as a boundary between light and darkness.

  • Job 38:13
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    13that it might seize the corners of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?

  • Job 37:15-16
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    15Do you know how God commands them, how he makes lightning flash in his storm cloud?

    16Do you know about the balancing of the clouds, that wondrous activity of him who is perfect in knowledge?

  • Ps 74:15-17
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    15You broke open the spring and the stream; you dried up perpetually flowing rivers.

    16You established the cycle of day and night; you put the moon and sun in place.

    17You set up all the boundaries of the earth; you created the cycle of summer and winter.

  • Prov 8:28-29
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    28when he established the clouds above, when he secured the fountains of the deep,

    29when he gave the sea his decree that the waters should not pass over his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

  • Job 9:7-8
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    7he who commands the sun and it does not shine and seals up the stars;

    8he alone spreads out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea;

  • Job 37:18
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    18will you, with him, spread out the clouds, solid as a mirror of molten metal?

  • Ps 104:9
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    9You set up a boundary for them that they could not cross, so that they would not cover the earth again.

  • Ps 65:8
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    8Even those living in the most remote areas are awestruck by your acts; you cause those living in the east and west to praise you.

  • Job 11:17
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    17And life will be brighter than the noonday; though there be darkness, it will be like the morning.

  • Ps 139:9
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    9If I were to fly away on the wings of the dawn, and settle down on the other side of the sea,

  • Job 20:4
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    4“Surely you know that it has been from old, ever since humankind was placed on the earth,

  • Gen 1:14
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    14God said,“Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs to indicate seasons and days and years,

  • Job 38:28
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    28Does the rain have a father, or who has fathered the drops of the dew?

  • Eccl 1:5
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    5The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries away to a place from which it rises again.

  • Ps 88:13
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    13As for me, I cry out to you, O LORD; in the morning my prayer confronts you.

  • Job 22:28
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    28Whatever you decide on a matter, it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.

  • Ps 104:19
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    19He made the moon to mark the months, and the sun sets according to a regular schedule.

  • Eccl 12:2
    69%

    2before the sun and the light of the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds disappear after the rain;

  • Job 25:3
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    3Can his armies be numbered? On whom does his light not rise?

  • Isa 40:21
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    21Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told to you since the very beginning? Have you not understood from the time the earth’s foundations were made?

  • Job 3:9
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    9Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,