Job 38:33

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 31:35-36 : 35 The Lord Guarantees Israel’s Continuance The LORD has made a promise to Israel. He promises it as the one who fixed the sun to give light by day and the moon and stars to give light by night. He promises it as the one who stirs up the sea so that its waves roll. His name is the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. 36 The LORD affirms,“The descendants of Israel will not cease forever to be a nation in my sight. That could only happen if the fixed ordering of the heavenly lights were to cease to operate before me.”
  • Jer 33:25 : 25 But I, the LORD, make the following promise: I have made a covenant governing the coming of day and night. I have established the fixed laws governing heaven and earth.
  • Gen 1:16 : 16 God made two great lights– the greater light to rule over the day and the lesser light to rule over the night. He made the stars also.
  • Gen 8:22 : 22 “While the earth continues to exist, planting time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”
  • Job 38:12-13 : 12 Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, or made the dawn know its place, 13 that it might seize the corners of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?
  • Ps 119:90-91 : 90 You demonstrate your faithfulness to all generations. You established the earth and it stood firm. 91 Today they stand firm by your decrees, for all things are your servants.
  • Ps 148:6 : 6 He established them so they would endure; he issued a decree that will not be revoked.

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