Job 38:12
Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Numquid post ortum tuum præcepisti diluculo, et ostendisti auroræ locum suum ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἢ ἐπὶ σοῦ συντέταχα φέγγος πρωινόν, ἑωσφόρος δὲ ἴδεν τὴν ἑαυτοῦ τάξιν,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הְֽ֭מִיָּמֶיךָ צִוִּ֣יתָ בֹּ֑קֶר ידעתה שחר מְקֹמֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Place. Thou art but as yesterday: where is thy power? (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Book XIII, Chapter XVII
20. Who hath gathered the embittered together into one society? For they have all the same end, that of temporal and earthly happiness, on account of which they do all things, although they may fluctuate with an innumerable variety of cares. Who, O Lord, unless Thou, saidst, Let the waters be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear, which “thirsteth after Thee”? For the sea also is Thine, and Thou hast made it, and Thy hands prepared the dry land. For neither is the bitterness of men’s wills, but the gathering together of waters called sea; for Thou even curbest the wicked desires of men’s souls, and fixest their bounds, how far they may be permitted to advance, and that their waves may be broken against each other; and thus dost Thou make it a sea, by the order of Thy dominion over all things.