Job 38:19

19 "Which way leads to where light has its home? and darkness, where does it dwell?

Job 38:19 Meaning and Commentary

Job 38:19

Where [is] the way [where] light dwelleth?
&c.] Or the way to the place where it dwells, and what that is;

and [as for] darkness, where [is] the place thereof?
where these were placed when they were first separated at the creation? where light goes and dwells, when it departs from us at sun setting? and where the darkness betakes itself, and makes its abode at sun rising? What is the chamber of the sun, and the tabernacle of it? from whence it sets out, and whither it returns? And though these questions may be answered by geographers and astronomers in their way; yet they seem to respect chiefly the disposal of light and darkness, in such a manner as to cause the revolution of them, and the inequality of days and nights in different seasons and climates; and which is not in the power of men to effect, but depends on the sovereign will of God.

Job 38:19 In-Context

17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you, the gates of death-like darkness?
18 Have you surveyed the full extent of the earth? Say so, if you know it all!
19 "Which way leads to where light has its home? and darkness, where does it dwell?
20 If you knew, you could take each to its place and set it on its homeward path.
21 You know, of course, because you were born then; by now you must be very old!
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