Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Do you know the laws of the heavens, or can you set up their rule over 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?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Knewest thou the course of heaven, that thou mayest set up the ordinance thereof upon 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
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Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 38:33
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Interrogates Job
32 Can you lead out the constellations in their seasons, or guide the Bear with its cubs? 33 Do you know the laws of the heavens, or can you set up their rule over the earth? 34 Can you raise your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?
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Cross References
Jeremiah 31:35-36
The Lord has made a promise to Israel. He promises it as the one who fixed the sun to give light by day and the moon and stars to give light by night. He promises it as the one who stirs up the sea so that its waves roll. He promises it as the one who is known as the Lord who rules over all.
Genesis 1:16
God made two great lights -- the greater light to rule over the day and the lesser light to rule over the night. He made the stars also.
Genesis 8:22
"While the earth continues to exist, planting time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease."
Job 38:12-13
Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, or made the dawn know its place,
Psalm 119:90-91
You demonstrate your faithfulness to all generations. You established the earth and it stood firm.
Psalm 148:6
He established them so they would endure; he issued a decree that will not be revoked.
Jeremiah 33:25
But I, the Lord, make the following promise: I have made a covenant governing the coming of day and night. I have established the fixed laws governing heaven and earth.