Job 38:33 BSB — MannaFest

Job 38:33

Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?

BSB

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ASV

Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens? Canst thou establish the dominion thereof in the earth?

KJV

Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?

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Commentary

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Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? - The laws or statutes by which the motions of the heavenly bodies are governed. These were wholly unknown in the time of Job, and the discovery of some of those laws - for only a few of them are yet known - was reserved to be the glory of the modern system of astronomy. The suggestion of the great principles of the system gave immortality to the name Copernicus; and the discovery of those laws in modern times has conferred immortality on the names of Brahe, Kepler, and Newton.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

"What is the way (to the place wherein) light dwelleth?" The origin of light and darkness. In Ge 1:3-5, 14-18, "light" is created distinct from, and previous to, light-emitting bodies, the luminaries of heaven.

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Original language & word study

7 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הֲ֭יָדַעְתָּ	Ha.ya.da'.ta	¿ do you know	H3045 →
חֻקּ֣וֹת	chu.Kot	[the] statutes of	H2708 →
שָׁמָ֑יִם	sha.Ma.yim	[the] heavens	H8064 →
אִם־	'im-	or?	H518 →
תָּשִׂ֖ים	ta.Sim	do you appoint	H7760 →
מִשְׁטָר֣וֹ	mish.ta.Ro	rule its	H4896 →
בָאָֽרֶץ׃	va.'A.retz	over the earth	H776 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 8:22
As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”
leads to
- Psalms 74:16–17
  The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- James 5:7
  Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil—how patient he is for the fall and spring rains.
- Jeremiah 5:24
  They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’
- Jeremiah 31:35
  Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the…
- Song of Solomon 2:11–12
  For now the winter is past; the rain is over and gone.
Through
Jeremiah 33:25
This is what the LORD says: If I have not established My covenant with the day and the night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,
leads to
- Jeremiah 31:35–36
  Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Jeremiah 33:20
  “This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,
Through
Psalms 148:6
He established them forever and ever; He issued a decree that will never pass away.
leads to
- Jeremiah 33:25
  This is what the LORD says: If I have not established My covenant with the day and the night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,

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Where the connections lead

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About Job