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12 Have you ever in your life[a] commanded the morning,
or made the dawn know[b] its place,

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Footnotes

  1. Job 38:12 tn The Hebrew idiom is “have you from your days?” It means “never in your life” (see 1 Sam 25:28; 1 Kgs 1:6).
  2. Job 38:12 tn The verb is the Piel of יָדַע (yadaʿ, “to know”) with a double accusative.

12 “Have you ever given orders to the morning,(A)
    or shown the dawn its place,(B)

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12 “Job, have you ever commanded the morning to come?
    Have you ever shown the sun where to rise?

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