Job 38:19

19 Où est le chemin du séjour de la lumière? Et les ténèbres, où est leur demeure?

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 Les portes de la mort se sont-elles découvertes à toi? Et as-tu vu les portes de l'ombre de la mort?
18 As-tu compris l'étendue de la terre? Si tu sais tout cela, dis-le!
19 Où est le chemin du séjour de la lumière? Et les ténèbres, où est leur demeure?
20 Car tu peux les ramener à leur domaine, et tu connais les sentiers de leur maison!
21 Tu le sais; car alors tu étais né, et le nombre de tes jours est grand!
The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.