Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Knewest thou the course of heaven, that thou mayest set up the ordinance thereof upon 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?
Julia Smith Translation
Knewest thou the laws of the heavens? or wilt thou set up its dominion in 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?
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 Canst thou bring forth the morning star or the evening star at convenient times, and convey them home again? 33 Knewest thou the course of heaven, that thou mayest set up the ordinance thereof upon the earth? 34 Moreover, canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that they may pour down a great rain upon thee?
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 31:35-36
"Thus sayeth the LORD which gave the sun to be a light for the day, and the moon and stars to shine in the night: which moveth the sea, so that the floods thereof wax fierce: his name is the LORD of Hosts.
Genesis 1:16
And God made two great lights: a greater light to rule the day, and a lesser light to rule the night; and he made stars also.
Genesis 8:22
Neither shall sowing time and harvest, cold, and heat, summer and winter, day and night cease, as long as the earth endureth."
Job 38:12-13
"Hast thou given the morning his charge, as soon as thou wast born, and showed the day spring his place,
Psalm 119:90-91
Thy truth also remaineth from one generation to another; thou hast laid the foundation of the earth, and it abideth.
Psalm 148:6
He hath made them fast for ever and ever; he hath given them a law which shall not be broken.
Jeremiah 33:25
Therefore thus sayeth the LORD: If I have made no covenant with day and night, and given no statute unto heaven and earth;