Job 38:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; ”

• Job 38:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days - That is, in thy lifetime hast thou ordered the light of the morning to shine, and directed its beams over the world? God appeals to this as one of...

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• Job 38:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Hast thou commanded the (i) morning since thy days; [and] caused the dayspring to know his place; (i) That is, to rise, since you were born?

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• Job 38:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Yahweh, speaking to Job out of the storm, challenges him to the contest, which he has so often demanded.

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• Job 38:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  the morning. See the Alternation below, verses: Job 38:12-14 .

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• Job 38:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; Hast thou commanded the morning - This refers to dawn or morning twilight, occasioned by the refraction o...

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• Job 38:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; Passing from creation to phenomena in the existing inanimate world. Verse 12. Hast thou - as God...

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• Job 38:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The First Speech of the Almighty ( Job 38:39 ) The marvels of creation, which witness to the infinite wisdom, power, and watchful care of the Creator, are presented to Job in such a way as to forc...

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• Job 38:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  And caused the dayspring to know his place. — Changing, as it does, from day to day with the changing seasons.

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• Job 38:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XXVII. "MUSIC IN THE BOUNDS OF LAW" Job 38:1-41 OVER the shadowed life of Job, and the world shadowed for him by his own intellectual and moral gloom, a storm sweeps, and from the storm issues...

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• Job 38:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Divine Power and Human Ignorance Job 38:1-18 When the storm had ceased and the thunder was hushed, a voice spoke out of the golden splendor of the sky. See Job 37:21-22 . Job had challenged Go...

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• Job 38:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Here begins the third movement in the great drama, that which deals with the controversy between Jehovah and Job. Out of the midst of the whirlwind the divine voice speaks. Its first word is a challe...

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• Job 38:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (4) В¶ Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. (5) Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?...

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• Job 38:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days ;.... Job had lived to see many a morning, but it never was in his power to command one; he had been in such circumstances as to wish for morning light...

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• Job 38:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; [and] caused the dayspring to know his place; Ver. 12. Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days ] It may be thou wilt say, These are ancient t...

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• Job 38:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Hast thou commanded the morning? That is, the morning light, or the sun, which is the cause of it. Didst thou create the sun, and appoint the order and succession of day and night. Since thy days...

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• Job 38:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  Marvellously, God Himself directly intervenes in this discussion so early in the history of man. The storm that had been brewing as Elihu spoke becomes a whirlwind, and God spoke to Job out of the wh...

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• Job 38:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Works of God. B. C. 1520.       12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and cau...

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• Job 38:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The morning, i.e. the morning light, or the sun, which is the cause of it. Didst thou create the sun, and appoint the order and succession of day and night? Since thy days; since thou wast born....

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• Job 38:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  JEHOVAH’S ADDRESS TO JOB Elihu had now said all he intended. Possibly interrupted by the storm which had been gathering during his speech. Out of the storm-cloud, from which already issued thund...

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• Job 38:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 38:1 . The whirlwind. Clouds and flames are the chariots of the Lord, in deigning to speak with men. When he spake to Elijah in Horeb, it was with wind, and fire, and earthquake. Likewise in...

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• Job 38:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  CLOSE OF THE CONTROVERSY BY THE INTERFERENCE OF THE ALMIGHTY . EXPOSITION The discourse, by which the Almighty answers Job and rebukes his "friends," occupies four chapters (...

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• Job 38:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Manifestation of God's Majesty in Creation

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• Job 38:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Peter 1:19 ; Genesis 1:5 ; Job 15:7 ; Job 38:21 ; Job 38:4 ; Job 8:9 ; Luke 1:78 ; Psalms 136:7 ; Psalms 136:8 ; Psalms 148:3-5 ; Psalms 74:16

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• Job 38:12 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  God Speaks to Job Job 38:1-41 to Job 42:1-17 INTRODUCTORY WORDS God's words to Job do not carry much by way of the explanation of redemption. Job was a child of God, and well-instructed...

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• Job 38:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Morning — Didst thou create the sun, and appoint the order and succession of day and night. Since — Since thou wast born: this work was done long before thou wast born. To know — To observe the pun...

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