Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Since thy days began hast thou commanded the morning? or caused the dawn to know its place;
New American Standard Bible
And caused the dawn to know its place,
King James Version
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
Holman Bible
or assigned the dawn its place,
International Standard Version
"Have you ever commanded the morning at any time during your life? Do you know where the dawn lives,
A Conservative Version
Have thou commanded the morning since thy days [began], [and] caused the dayspring to know its place
American Standard Version
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days began , And caused the dayspring to know its place;
Amplified
“Since your days began, have you ever commanded the morning,
And caused the dawn to know its place,
Bible in Basic English
Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;
Darby Translation
Hast thou since thy days commanded the morning? hast thou caused the dawn to know its place,
Julia Smith Translation
In thy days didst thou command the morning? and didst thou make the dawning know its place?
King James 2000
Have you commanded the morning since your days began; and caused the dawn to know its place;
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Have you {ever in your life} commanded [the] morning? Have you made the dawn know its place,
Modern King James verseion
Have you commanded the morning from your days, and caused the dawn to know its place,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"Hast thou given the morning his charge, as soon as thou wast born, and showed the day spring his place,
NET Bible
Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, or made the dawn know its place,
New Heart English Bible
"Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place;
Webster
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the day-spring to know its place;
World English Bible
"Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place;
Youngs Literal Translation
Hast thou commanded morning since thy days? Causest thou the dawn to know its place?
Interlinear
Tsavah
Yowm
Shachar
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 38:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Interrogates Job
11 And said - Hitherto, shalt thou come, and no further, - and, here, shalt thou set a limit to the majesty of thy waves? 12 Since thy days began hast thou commanded the morning? or caused the dawn to know its place; 13 That it might lay hold of the wings of the earth, and the lawless be shaken out of it?
Names
Cross References
Psalm 74:16
Thine, is the day, Yea, thine, the night, Thou, didst establish moon and sun;
Genesis 1:5
and God called the light, day, but the darkness, called he, night. So it was evening - and it was morning, one day.
Job 8:9
For, of yesterday, are, we, and cannot know, for, a shadow, are our days upon earth:
Job 15:7
The first of mankind, wast thou born? Or, before the hills, wast thou brought forth?
Job 38:4
Where wast thou, when I founded the earth? Tell, if thou knowest understanding!
Job 38:21
Thou knowest, for, then, hadst thou been born! And, in number, thy days are many!
Psalm 136:7-8
To him that made great lights, For, age-abiding, is his lovingkindness.
Psalm 148:3-5
Praise him, sun and moon, Praise him, all ye stars of light;
Luke 1:78
Because of the yearning compassion of the mercy of our God, wherein shall visit us a day-dawn from on high, -
2 Peter 1:19
And we have, more firm, the prophetic word; - whereunto ye are doing, well, to take heed, - as unto a lamp shining in a dusky place, - until, day, shall dawn, and, a day-star, shall arise in your hearts: -