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Verse         Translation Text
Job 38:12 Strong Concordance Hast thou commanded [06680] the morning [01242] since thy days [03117]; and caused the dayspring [07837] to know [03045] his place [04725];
  King James Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Passing from creation to phenomena in the existing inanimate world.

Hast thou--as God daily does.

commanded the morning--to rise.

since thy days--since thou hast come into being.

his place--It varies in its place of rising from day to day, and yet it has its place each day according to fixed laws.
 
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14 And God [0430] said [0559], Let there be lights [03974] in the firmament [07549] of the heaven [08064] to divide [0914] the day [03117] from the night [03915]; and let them be for signs [0226], and for seasons [04150], and for days [03117], and years [08141]:
10 And God [0430] called [07121] the dry [03004] land Earth [0776]; and the gathering together [04723] of the waters [04325] called [07121] he Seas [03220]: and God [0430] saw [07200] that it was good [02896].
15 And from the wicked [07563] their light [0216] is withholden [04513], and the high [07311] arm [02220] shall be broken [07665].
13 That it might take hold [0270] of the ends [03671] of the earth [0776], that the wicked [07563] might be shaken out [05287] of it?
13 They are of those that rebel [04775] against the light [0216]; they know [05234] not the ways [01870] thereof, nor abide [03427] in the paths [05410] thereof.
17 For the morning [01242] is to them even as [03162] the shadow of death [06757]: if one know [05234] them, they are in the terrors [01091] of the shadow of death [06757].
13 That it might take hold [0270] of the ends [03671] of the earth [0776], that the wicked [07563] might be shaken out [05287] of it?
6 Thou coveredst [03680] it with the deep [08415] as with a garment [03830]: the waters [04325] stood [05975] above the mountains [02022].
14 It is turned [02015] as clay [02563] to the seal [02368]; and they stand [03320] as a garment [03830].
14 It is turned [02015] as clay [02563] to the seal [02368]; and they stand [03320] as a garment [03830].
13 That it might take hold [0270] of the ends [03671] of the earth [0776], that the wicked [07563] might be shaken out [05287] of it?