Job 38:33

31 Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?

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

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

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

35 Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?
KJV
Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
WEB
Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?
ASV
Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens? Canst thou establish the dominion thereof in the earth?
DARBY
Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens? dost thou determine their rule over the earth?
BLB
Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Or can you set its rule over the earth?
ÅB
Kjenner du himmelens lover? Fastsetter du dens herredømme over jorden?
OTB
Kjenner du himmelens lover?
Kan du fastsette dens herredømme over jorden?
B1930
Kjenner du himmelens lover? Fastsetter du dens herredømme over jorden?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 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 LORD of Hosts is His name:

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  • Genesis 8:22

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

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  • Psalms 148:6

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

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  • Job 38:12–13

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

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  • 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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  • Genesis 1:16

    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.

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  • Psalms 119:90–91

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

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