Job 38:20

20 Dat gij dat brengen zoudt tot zijn pale, en dat gij merken zoudt de paden zijns huizes?

Job 38:20 Meaning and Commentary

Job 38:20

That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof
Either darkness, or rather the light; take it as it were by the hand, and guide and direct its course to its utmost bound. This only the Lord can do and does: he has set a tabernacle for the sun, which goes forth at his command as a strong man to run a race; whose going forth is from the end of the heavens, and his circuit unto the ends of it: in which his course is so steered and directed by the Lord, that he never misses his way or errs from it; but keeps his path exactly, as well as knows its rising and setting, its utmost bounds;

and that thou shouldest know the paths [to] the house thereof?
from whence it sets out, and whither it returns; see ( Psalms 19:4-6 ) . And so the light and darkness of prosperity and adversity, as well as natural light and darkness, are of God, at his disposal, and bounded by him, and therefore his will should be submitted to; which is the doctrine the Lord would teach Job by all this.

Job 38:20 In-Context

18 Zijt gij met uw verstand gekomen tot aan de breedte der aarde? Geef het te kennen, indien gij dit alles weet.

19 Waar is de weg, daar het licht woont? En de duisternis, waar is haar plaats?

20 Dat gij dat brengen zoudt tot zijn pale, en dat gij merken zoudt de paden zijns huizes?

21 Gij weet het, want gij waart toen geboren, en uw dagen zijn veel in getal.

22 Zijt gij gekomen tot de schatkameren der sneeuw, en hebt gij de schatkameren des hagels gezien?