Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
In thy days didst thou command the morning? and didst thou make the dawning 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,
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;
The Emphasized Bible
Since thy days began hast thou commanded the morning? or 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 saying, Even to this shalt thou come, and thou shalt not add: and here in the pride of thy waves, stand thou. 12 In thy days didst thou command the morning? and didst thou make the dawning know its place? 13 To take hold upon the wings of the earth, and the unjust shall be shaken out of it?
Names
Cross References
Psalm 74:16
To thee the day, also to thee the night: thou didst prepare the light and the sun.
Genesis 1:5
And God will call to the light day, and to the darkness he called night: and the evening shall be, and the morning shall be one day.
Job 8:9
(For yesterday are we and we shall not know, for our days upon earth are a shadow:)
Job 15:7
Shalt thou be the firm man born? and hadst thou a beginning before the hills?
Job 38:4
Where wort thou in my founding the earth? Announce, if thou knewest understanding.
Job 38:21
Knewest thou? for shalt thou then be born, and the number of thy days great?
Psalm 136:7-8
To him making great lights: for his mercy is forever.
Psalm 148:3-5
Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise ye him all the stars of light.
Luke 1:78
Through the bowels of mercy of our God; by which the rising of the sun of sublimity has reviewed us,
2 Peter 1:19
And we have the prophetic word more firm; which holding to, ye do well, as to a light shining in a dusty place, even till the day shine through, and the morning star spring up in your hearts: