Job 38:19

What does Job 38:19 mean?

A plain-English look at Job 38:19 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Where <FI>is<Fi> this--the way light dwelleth? And darkness, where <FI>is<Fi> this--its place?

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Where is the way where light dwelleth, and where is the place of darkness?

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

Where is the way to where light dwelleth? and the darkness, where is its place,

Context

v.18Hast thou comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if thou knowest it all.

v.19This passage

v.20That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, And that thou shouldest discern the paths to the house thereof?

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Jeremiah 13:16

    Give glory to Jehovah your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

  • Deuteronomy 4:19

    and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of heaven, thou be drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Jehovah thy God hath allotted unto all the peoples under the whole heaven.

  • Job 38:12

    Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days began, And caused the dayspring to know its place;

  • Matthew 27:45

    Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.

  • Psalms 18:11

    He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion round about him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

  • Genesis 1:3

    And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

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