the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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Job 38:33
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Do you know the laws of the universe? Can you use them to regulate the earth?
Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens? canst thou establish the dominion thereof in the earth?
Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish the dominion thereof in the earth?
Do you know the laws of the sky and understand their rule over the earth?
Do you know the laws of the heavens, or can you set up their rule over the earth?
Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set its dominion on the earth?
Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish the dominion of it over the earth?
"Do you know the ordinances of the heavens, Or [can you] establish their rule over the earth?
Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish their rule on the earth?
Whether thou knowist the ordre of heuene, and schalt sette the resoun therof in erthe?
Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?
Do you know the laws that govern the heavens, and can you make them rule the earth?
Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens? Canst thou establish the dominion thereof in the earth?
Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?
Do you know the laws of the sky? Can you determine how they affect the earth?
Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens? dost thou determine their rule over the earth?
Do you know the laws that control the sky? Can you put each star in its place above the earth?
Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens? Canst thou establish the dominion thereof in the earth?
Knowest thou the ordinances of heauen? Canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you make them to rule over the earth?
Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish their rule on the earth?
Knowest thou the course of heauen, or canst thou set the rule thereof in the earth?
Do you know the laws of the heavens? Or do you make ordinances for the earth?
Do you know the laws that govern the skies, and can you make them apply to the earth?
Knowest thou, the statutes of the heavens? Or didst thou appoint his dominion over the earth?
Dost thou know the order of heaven, and canst thou set down the reason thereof on the earth?
Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish their rule on the earth?
Knowest thou the course of heauen, that thou mayest set vp the ordinaunce thereof vpon the earth?
And knowest thou the changes of heaven, or the events which take place together under heaven?
Do you know the laws of heaven?Can you impose its authority on earth?
Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish the dominion of it over the eretz?
Do you know heaven's statutes, or can you establish their rule on the earth?
Do you know the limits of the heavens; can you establish their rulership on the earth?
Hast thou known the statutes of heaven? Or dost thou appoint Its dominion in the earth?
Knowest thou the course off heaue, yt thou mayest set vp the ordinaunce therof vpo earth?
"Do you know the ordinances of the heavens, Or do you establish their rule over the earth?
Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?
"Do you know the ordinances of the heavens, Or fix their rule over the earth?
Do you know the statutes of the heavens,Or fix their rule over the earth?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the ordinances: Genesis 1:16, Genesis 8:22, Psalms 119:90, Psalms 119:91, Jeremiah 31:35, Jeremiah 31:36, Jeremiah 33:25
canst: Job 38:12, Job 38:13
Reciprocal: Psalms 148:6 - He hath also
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven?.... Settled by the decree, purpose, and will of God, and are firm and stable; see
Psalms 148:6; the laws and statutes respecting their situation, motion, operation, influence, and use, which are constantly observed; these are so far from being made by men, and at their direction, that they are not known by them, at least not fully and perfectly;
canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth? or over it; of the heavens over the earth; not such an one as judicial astrologers ascribe unto them, as to influence the bodies of men, especially the tempers and dispositions of their minds; to affect their wills and moral actions, the events and occurrences of their lives, and the fate of nations and kingdoms; their dominion is not moral and civil, but physical or natural, as to make the revolutions of night and day, and of the several seasons of the year; and to affect and influence the fruits of the earth, c. see Genesis 1:16 but this dominion is solely under God, and at his direction, and is not of men's fixing.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? - The laws or statutes by which the motions of the heavenly bodies are governed. These were wholly unknown in the time of Job, and the discovery of some of those laws - for only a few of them are yet known - was reserved to be the glory of the modern system of astronomy. The suggestion of the great principles of the system gave immortality to the name Copernicus; and the discovery of those laws in modern times has conferred immortality on the names of Brahe, Kepler, and Newton. The laws which control the heavenly bodies are the most sublime that are known to man, and have done more to impress the human mind with a sense of the majesty of God than any other: discoveries made in the material universe. Of course, all those laws were known to God himself, and he appeals to them in proof of his greatness and majesty. The grand and beautiful movements of the heavenly bodies in the time of Job were fitted to produce admiration; and one of the chief delights of those that dwelt under the splendor of an Oriental sky was to contemplate those movements, and to give names to those moving lights. The discoveries of science have enlarged the conceptions of man in regard to the starry heavens far toward immensity; have shown that these twinkling lights are vast worlds and systems, and at the same time have so disclosed the laws by which they are governed as to promote, where the heart is right, intelligent piety, and elevate the mind to more glorious views of the Creator.
Canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth? - That is, “dost thou assign the dominion of the heavens over the earth?” The reference is, undoubtedly, to the influence of the heavenly bodies upon sublunary objects. The exact extent of that cannot be supposed to have been known in the days of Job, and it is probable that much more was ascribed to the influence of the stars on human affairs than the truth would justify. Nor is its extent now known. It is known that the moon has an influence over the tides of the ocean; it may be that it has to some extent over the weather; and it is not impossible that the other heavenly bodies may have some effect on the changes observed in the earth which is not understood. Whatever it is, it was and is all known to God, and the idea here is, that it was a proof of his immense superiority over man.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 38:33. Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? — Art thou a thorough astronomer? Art thou acquainted with all the laws of the planetary system? Canst thou account for the difference of their motions, and the influence by which they are retained and revolve in their orbits? And canst thou tell what influence or dominion they exercise on the earth? Sir Isaac Newton has given us much light on many of these things; but to his system, which is most probably the true one, gravity is essential; and yet what this gravity is he could neither explain nor comprehend; and his followers are not one whit wiser than he. No man has ever yet fully found out the ordinances of heaven, and the dominion thereof on the earth.
