Job 38:13

"“Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place,"

Key Reflection

In Job 38:13, God asks if Job has the authority to command the morning and instruct dawn where to rise. This rhetorical question emphasizes the divine power and sovereignty over natural phenomena like daybreak. For the original audience, this would have underscored the idea that only a supreme deity could control such fundamental aspects of nature, reinforcing the theme of God’s omniscience and omnipotence in the narrative.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

That it might take hold of the ends of the earth -Margin, as in Hebrew “wings.” Wings are in the Scriptures frequently given to the earth, because it seems to be spread out, and the expression refers to its extremities. The language is derived from the supposition that the earth was a plain, and had limits or bounds. The idea here is, that God causes the light of the morning suddenly to spread to the remotest parts of the world, and to reveal everything which was there. That the wicked might be shaken out of it -Out of the earth; that is, by the light which suddenly shines upon them.

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