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Job 38:12
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"Have you ever commanded the morning to appear and caused the dawn to rise in the east?
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days began, and caused the dayspring to know its place;
Have you commanded the morning since your days [began], [And] caused the sunrise to know its place;
"Have you ever ordered the morning to begin, or shown the dawn where its place was
Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, or made the dawn know its place,
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; [and] caused the day-spring to know its place;
"Have you commanded the morning in your days, And caused the dawn to know its place;
"Since your days began, have you ever commanded the morning, And caused the dawn to know its place,
"Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place,
Whethir aftir thi birthe thou comaundist to the bigynnyng of dai, and schewidist to the morewtid his place?
In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,
Did you ever tell the sun to rise? And did it obey?
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days began, And caused the dayspring to know its place;
Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;
"Have you ever in your life called up the dawn and made the morning know its place,
Hast thou since thy days commanded the morning? hast thou caused the dawn to know its place,
"Did you ever in your life command the morning to begin or the day to dawn?
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days began, and caused the dayspring to know its place;
Hast thou commaunded the morning since thy daies? And caused the day-spring to know his place,
"Have you ever in your life told the morning when to come, and caused the first light of day to know its place,
"Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place,
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy dayes? hast thou caused the morning to knowe his place,
Have you commanded the dawn since your days began; or do you know the place of the morning;
Job, have you ever in all your life commanded a day to dawn?
Since thy days began hast thou commanded the morning? or caused the dawn to know its place;
Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place?
"Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place,
Hast thou geue the morning his charge since thy dayes, and shewed the day spring his place,
Or did I order the morning light in thy time; and did the morning star then first see his appointed place;
Have you ever in your life commanded the morningor assigned the dawn its place,
"Have you commanded the morning in your days, And caused the dawn to know its place;
"Have you ever in your life commanded the morning? Have you made the dawn know its place,
Have you commanded the morning from your days, and caused the dawn to know its place,
Hast thou commanded morning since thy days? Causest thou the dawn to know its place?
Hast thou geue the mornynge his charge (as soone as thou wast borne) and shewed the dayespringe his place,
"And have you ever ordered Morning, ‘Get up!' told Dawn, ‘Get to work!' So you could seize Earth like a blanket and shake out the wicked like cockroaches? As the sun brings everything to light, brings out all the colors and shapes, The cover of darkness is snatched from the wicked— they're caught in the very act!
"Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, And made the dawn know its place,
"Have you commanded the morning since your days began, And caused the dawn to know its place,
"Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, And caused the dawn to know its place,
"Have you ever in your life commanded the morning,And caused the dawn to know its place,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
commanded: Genesis 1:5, Psalms 74:16, Psalms 136:7, Psalms 136:8, Psalms 148:3-5
since: Job 38:4, Job 38:21, Job 8:9, Job 15:7
the dayspring: Luke 1:78, 2 Peter 1:19
Reciprocal: Genesis 1:14 - Let there Genesis 1:17 - General Job 9:7 - sealeth Job 24:16 - they know Job 25:3 - upon whom Job 38:19 - the way Job 38:24 - General Job 38:33 - canst Psalms 65:8 - outgoings Psalms 104:19 - General Amos 5:8 - and turneth
Cross-References
And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's.
And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan.
And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.
And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.
And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, How hast thou broken forth? this breach be upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez.
And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to Bethshemesh, and passed on to Timnah:
Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,
Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdalgad,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days;.... Job had lived to see many a morning, but it never was in his power to command one; he had been in such circumstances as to wish for morning light before it was, but was obliged to wait for it, could not hasten it, or cause it to spring before its time; see Job 7:3; one of the Targums is,
"wast thou in the days of the first creation, and commandedst the morning to be?''
he was not, God was; he was before the first morning, and commanded it into being, Genesis 1:3;
[and] caused the dayspring to know his place; the first spring of light or dawn of day; which though it has a different place every day in the year, as the sun ascends or descends in the signs of the Zodiac, yet it knows and observes its exact place, being taught of God.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days - That is, in thy lifetime hast thou ordered the light of the morning to shine, and directed its beams over the world? God appeals to this as one of the proofs of his majesty and power - and who can look upon the spreading light of the morning and be insensible to the force and beauty of the appeal? The transition from the ocean to the morning may have been partly because the light of the morning is one of the striking exhibitions of the power of God, and partly because in the creation of the world the light of the sun was made to dawn soon after the gathering together of the waters into seas; see Genesis 1:10, Genesis 1:14. The phrase “since thy days,” implies that the laws determining the rising of the sun were fixed long before the time of Job. It is asked whether this had been done since he had an existence, and whether he had an agency in effecting it - implying that it was an ancient and established ordinance long before he was born.
Caused the day-spring to know his place - The day-spring (שׁחר shachar) means the “aurora, the dawn, the morning.” The mention of its “place” here seems to be an allusion to the fact that it does not always occupy the same position. At one season of the year it appears on the equator, at another north, and at another south of it, and is constantly varying its position. Yet it always knows its place. It never fails to appear where by the long-observed laws it ought to appear. It is regular in its motions, and is evidently under the control of an intelligent Being, who has fixed the laws of its appearing.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 38:12. Hast thou commanded the morning — This refers to dawn or morning twilight, occasioned by the refraction of the solar rays by means of the atmosphere; so that we receive the light by degrees, which would otherwise burst at once upon our eyes, and injure, if not destroy, our sight; and by which even the body of the sun himself becomes evident several minutes before he rises above the horizon.
Caused the dayspring to know his place — This seems to refer to the different points in which daybreak appears during the course of the earth's revolution in its orbit; and which variety of points of appearing depends on this annual revolution. For, as the earth goes round the sun every year in the ecliptic, one half of which is on the north side of the equinoctial, and the other half on its south side, the sun appears to change his place every day. These are matters which the wisdom of God alone could plan, and which his power alone could execute.
It may be just necessary to observe that the dawn does not appear, nor the sun rise exactly in the same point of the horizon, two successive days in the whole year, as he declines forty-three degrees north, and forty-three degrees south, of east; beginning on the 21st of March, and ending on the 22d of December; which variations not only produce the places of rising and setting, but also the length of day and night. And by this declination north and south, or approach to and recession from the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, the solar light takes hold of the ends of the earth, Job 38:13, enlightens the arctic and antarctic circles in such a way as it would not do were it always on the equinoctial line; these tropics taking the sun twenty-three and a half degrees north, and as many south, of this line.
