Job 38:33

In 11 translations

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?

LSV

Have you known the statutes of the heavens? Or do you appoint || Its dominion in the earth?

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

Dost thou know the order of heaven, and canst thou set down the reason thereof on the earth?

GNV

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

JPS

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

LXXE

And knowest thou the changes of heaven, or the events which take place together under heaven?

Word by word Hebrew · tap a word

Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC

הֲ֭יָדַעְתָּ חֻקּ֣וֹת שָׁמָ֑יִם אִם־תָּשִׂ֖ים מִשְׁטָר֣וֹ בָאָֽרֶץ׃

LXX-Br

Ἐπίστασαι δὲ τροπὰς οὐρανοῦ, ἢ τὰ ὑπʼ οὐρανὸν ὁμοθυμαδὸν γινόμενα;

Who and where

People, places and events the Theographic dataset links to this verse.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

• Jeremiah 31:35–36Thus 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: “Only if this fixed order…
• Genesis 8:22As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”
• Genesis 1:16God 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.
• Psalms 148:6He established them forever and ever; He issued a decree that will never pass away.
• Job 38:12–13In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place, that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?
• Jeremiah 33:25This 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,
• Psalms 119:90–91Your faithfulness continues through all generations; You established the earth, and it endures. Your ordinances stand to this day, for all things are servants to You.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).