Job 38:12
Good News Translation
Job, have you ever in all your life commanded a day to dawn?

New Revised Standard Version
“Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place,

Contemporary English Version
Did you ever tell the sun to rise? And did it obey?

New American Bible
Have you ever in your lifetime commanded the morning and shown the dawn its place

Douay-Rheims Bible
Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place?

commanded

Genesis 1:5 And he called the light Day, and the darkness Night; and there was evening and morning one day.

Psalm 74:16 Thine is the day, and thine is the night: thou hast made the morning light and the sun.

Psalm 136:7,8 Who made the great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever. . . .

Psalm 148:3-5 Praise ye him, O sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars and light. . . .

since

Job 38:4,21 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? tell me if thou hast understanding. . . .

Job 8:9 (For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow)

Job 15:7 Art thou the first man that was born, or wast thou made before the hills?

the dayspring

Luke 1:78 Through the bowels of the mercy of our God, in which the Orient from on high hath visited us:

2 Peter 1:19 And we have the more firm prophetical word: whereunto you do well to attend, as to a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts.

Context
God Challenges Job
11And I said: Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and here thou shalt break thy swelling waves. 12Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place?13And didst thou hold the extremities of the earth shaking them, and hast thou shaken the ungodly out of it?…
Cross References
Job 38:11
And I said: Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and here thou shalt break thy swelling waves.

Job 38:13
And didst thou hold the extremities of the earth shaking them, and hast thou shaken the ungodly out of it?

Amos 5:8
Seek him that maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and that turneth darkness into morning, and that changeth day into night: that calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name.

Job 38:11
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