Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"Hast thou given the morning his charge, as soon as thou wast born, and showed the day spring his 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,
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 saying, 'Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further, and here shalt thou lay down thy proud and high waves.' 12 "Hast thou given the morning his charge, as soon as thou wast born, and showed the day spring his place, 13 that it might take hold of the corners of the earth, and that the ungodly might be shaken out?
Names
Cross References
Psalm 74:16
The day is thine. The night is thine. Thou hast prepared the lights and the sun.
Genesis 1:5
and called the light "day," and the darkness "night." And so of the evening and morning was made the first day.
Job 8:9
For we are but of yesterday, and consider not that our days upon earth are but a very shadow.
Job 15:7
Art thou the first man that ever was born? Or, wast thou made before the hills?
Job 38:4
"Where wast thou, when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell plainly if thou hast understanding.
Job 38:21
Knowest thou, when thou wast born, how old thou shouldest be?
Psalm 136:7-8
Which hath made great lights! For his mercy endureth forever.
Psalm 148:3-5
Praise him sun and moon; praise him all ye stars and light.
Luke 1:78
Through the tender mercy of our God, whereby the day spring from on high hath visited us:
2 Peter 1:19
We have also a right sure word of prophecy, whereunto if ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, ye do well; until the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts.