Job 38:33 “Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over t…”

Job 38:33

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Knowest thou the course of heauen, or canst thou set the rule thereof in the earth?

Darby Translation

Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens? dost thou determine their rule over the earth?

Young's Literal Translation

Hast thou known the statutes of heaven? Or dost thou appoint Its dominion in the earth?

Bible in Basic English

Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?

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Cross references

“the ordinances”

Genesis 8:22 Genesis 1:16 Jeremiah 33:25 Psalm 119:90 Psalm 119:91 Jeremiah 31:35

Genesis 8:22 · BSB

As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”

Genesis 1:16 · BSB

God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. And He made the stars as well.

Jeremiah 33:25 · BSB

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,

Psalm 119:90 · BSB

Your faithfulness continues through all generations; You established the earth, and it endures.

Psalm 119:91 · BSB

Your ordinances stand to this day, for all things are servants to You.

Jeremiah 31:35 · BSB

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 LORD of Hosts is His name:

“canst”

Job 38:12 Job 38:13

Job 38:12 · BSB

In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,

Job 38:13 · BSB

that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?

Also

Psalm 148:6

Psalm 148:6 · BSB

He established them forever and ever; He issued a decree that will never pass away.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

32Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear and her cubs?

34Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

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