12Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
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The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light. …
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-24)The Lord here proceeds to ask Job many puzzling questions, to convince him of his ignorance, and so to shame him for his folly in prescribing to God. If we will but try ourselves with such interrogatories as these, we shall soon be brought to own that what we know is nothing in comparison with what we know not. Job is here challenged to give an account of six things:— I. Of the springs of the morn…
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