Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Have you {ever in your life} commanded [the] morning? Have you made the dawn 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;
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 I said, 'You shall come up to here, but you shall not go further, and here it will set [a boundary] {for your proud surging waves}'? 12 "Have you {ever in your life} commanded [the] morning? Have you made the dawn know its place, 13 to take hold of the earth's skirts so that the wicked might be shaken off from it?
Names
Cross References
Psalm 74:16
Yours [is the] day, yours [is the] night also. You established light and [the] sun.
Genesis 1:5
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, [the] first day.
Job 8:9
for we [are of] yesterday, and we do not know, for our days on earth [are] a shadow.
Job 15:7
"Were you born the firstborn of the human race? And were you brought forth {before} [the] hills?
Job 38:4
"Where were you at my laying the foundation of [the] earth? Tell [me], if you possess understanding.
Job 38:21
You know, for you were born then, and the number of your days [is] great.
Psalm 136:7-8
To [him who] made [the] great lights, for his loyal love [endures] forever.
Psalm 148:3-5
Praise him, sun and moon; praise him, all stars of light.
Luke 1:78
because of the merciful compassion of our God by which the dawn will visit to help us from on high,
2 Peter 1:19
and we possess [as] more reliable the prophetic word, to which you do well [if you] pay attention to [it] as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts,