Job 38:33

World English Bible (2000)

Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 31:35-36 : 35 Thus says Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name: 36 If these ordinances depart from before me, says Yahweh, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever.
  • Jer 33:25 : 25 Thus says Yahweh: If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
  • Gen 1:16 : 16 God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.
  • Gen 8:22 : 22 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."
  • Job 38:12-13 : 12 "Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place; 13 that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?
  • Ps 119:90-91 : 90 Your faithfulness is to all generations. You have established the earth, and it remains. 91 Your laws remain to this day, for all things serve you.
  • Ps 148:6 : 6 He has also established them forever and ever. He has made a decree which will not pass away.

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