Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Knewest thou the laws of the heavens? or wilt thou set up its dominion in the earth?
New American Standard Bible
Or fix their rule over the earth?
King James Version
Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
Holman Bible
Can you impose its
International Standard Version
Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you regulate their authority over the earth?
A Conservative Version
Do thou know the ordinances of the heavens? Can thou establish the dominion of it on the earth?
American Standard Version
Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens? Canst thou establish the dominion thereof in the earth?
Amplified
“Do you know the ordinances of the heavens,
Or [can you] establish their rule over the earth?
Bible in Basic English
Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?
Darby Translation
Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens? dost thou determine their rule over the earth?
King James 2000
Know you the ordinances of heaven? can you set their dominion in the earth?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Do you know heaven's statutes, or can you establish their rule on the earth?
Modern King James verseion
Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you set up their rulership on the earth?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Knewest thou the course of heaven, that thou mayest set up the ordinance thereof upon the earth?
NET Bible
Do you know the laws of the heavens, or can you set up their rule over the earth?
New Heart English Bible
Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?
The Emphasized Bible
Knowest thou, the statutes of the heavens? Or didst thou appoint his dominion over the earth?
Webster
Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set its dominion on the earth?
World English Bible
Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?
Youngs Literal Translation
Hast thou known the statutes of heaven? Or dost thou appoint Its dominion in the earth?
Interlinear
Yada`
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 38:33
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Interrogates Job
32 Wilt thou bring forth the twelve signs in its time? and the great bear and his sons, wilt thou guide them? 33 Knewest thou the laws of the heavens? or wilt thou set up its dominion in the earth? 34 Wilt thou lift up thy voice to the cloud, and abundance of waters shall cover thee?
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 31:35-36
Thus said Jehovah, giving the sun for light the day, the laws of the moon and the stars for a light the night., causing the sea to tremble, and its waves shall roar; Jehovah of armies his name.
Genesis 1:16
And God will make two great lights; the great light for the rule of the day, and the small light for the rule of the night and the stars.
Genesis 8:22
Yet all the days of the earth, seed and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Job 38:12-13
In thy days didst thou command the morning? and didst thou make the dawning know its place?
Psalm 119:90-91
To generation and generation thy faithfulness: thou didst prepare the earth and it will stand.
Psalm 148:6
And he will cause them to stand even to forever: he gave a law and it shall not pass away.
Jeremiah 33:25
Thus said Jehovah, If not my covenant of the day and of the night, the laws of the heavens and the earth I set not up.