Job 38:19
Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
Job 38:19 in other translations
| BSB | Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides, |
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| WEB | “What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place, |
| ASV | Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is the place thereof, |
| YLT | Where is this--the way light dwelleth? And darkness, where is this--its place? |
| DARBY | Where is the way to where light dwelleth? and the darkness, where is its place, |
| BBE | Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark; |
| Webster | Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is its place, |
What does Job 38:19 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 38:19-38
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 38:12-24
The Lord questions Job, to convince him of his ignorance, and shame him for his folly in prescribing to God. If we thus try ourselves, we shall soon be brought to own that what we know is nothing in comparison with what we know not. By the tender mercy of our God, the Day-spring from on high has visited us, to give light to those that sit in darkness, whose hearts are turned to it as clay to the seal, 2Co 4:6. God's…
Job 38:19 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 38:19
- Ezekiel 32:8
All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God.
- Matthew 27:45
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
- Isaiah 45:7
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
- Genesis 1:3-4
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
- Amos 4:13
For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The Lord, The God of hosts, is his name.
- Psalms 104:20
Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
- Deuteronomy 4:19
And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
- Psalms 18:11
He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
- Job 38:12-13
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
- Genesis 1:14-18
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, …
- Psalms 105:28
He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
- John 8:12
Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Context
- Job 38:18
Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.
- Job 38:19
Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
- Job 38:20
That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?
Job 38:19 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿Por dónde va el camino á la habitación de la luz, y dónde está el lugar de las tinieblas? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Où est le chemin vers le séjour de la lumière? et les ténèbres, où est leur place? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Welches ist der Weg zur Wohnung des Lichtes, und die Finsternis, wo ist ihre Stätte? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | in qua via lux habitet, et tenebrarum quis locus sit: |