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Job 38:19
Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God addresses Job immediately after questioning his knowledge of the earth’s extent, pressing the inquiry during His direct rhetorical interrogation.
The words — אֵי־ ('ei-) translates literally to "where," and אֹר ('or) means "light," anchoring the verse’s direct question about the location of these created elements.
The thread — The text’s focus on light and darkness appears in Genesis 1:3 where God commands light into existence, and in Genesis 1:14 where He places lights in the sky to distinguish day from night, while Ezekiel 32:8 references God darkening the heavens to bring darkness upon a land.
Why it lands — The verse demands recognition of human limitation by asking whether Job can locate the sources of creation’s fundamental forces that he did not establish.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
Cross-references
- Ezekiel 32:8 All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you, and I will bring darkness upon your land,’ declares the Lord GOD.
- Genesis 1:3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
- Genesis 1:14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.
- Deuteronomy 4:19 When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars—all the host of heaven—do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.
- Job 38:12 In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,
- Psalms 18:11 He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.
- Psalms 104:20 You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.
- Psalms 105:28 He sent darkness, and it became dark—yet they defied His words.
- Isaiah 45:7 I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
- Amos 4:13 For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”