Job 38:33
Good News Translation
Do you know the laws that govern the skies, and can you make them apply to the earth?

New Revised Standard Version
Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish their rule on the earth?

Contemporary English Version
Do you know the laws that govern the heavens, and can you make them rule the earth?

New American Bible
Do you know the ordinances of the heavens; can you put into effect their plan on the earth?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Dost thou know the order of heaven, and canst thou set down the reason thereof on the earth?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Dost thou know the order of heaven, and canst thou set down the reason thereof on the earth?

the ordinances

Genesis 1:16 And God made two great lights: a greater light to rule the day; and a lesser light to rule the night: and the stars.

Genesis 8:22 All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, shall not cease.

Psalm 119:90,91 Thy truth unto all generations: thou hast founded the earth, and it continueth. . . .

Jeremiah 31:35,36 Thus saith the Lord, who giveth the sun for the light of the day, the order of the moon and of the stars, for the light of the night: who stirreth up the sea, and the waves thereof roar, the Lord of hosts is his name. . . .

Jeremiah 33:25 Thus saith the Lord. If I have not set my covenant between day and night, and laws to heaven and earth:

canst

Job 38:12,13 Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place? . . .

Context
God Challenges Job
32Canst thou bring forth the day star in its time, and make the evening star to rise upon the children of the earth? 33Dost thou know the order of heaven, and canst thou set down the reason thereof on the earth?34Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that an abundance of waters may cover thee?…
Cross References
Job 38:32
Canst thou bring forth the day star in its time, and make the evening star to rise upon the children of the earth?

Psalm 148:6
He hath established them for ever, and for ages of ages: he hath made a decree, and it shall not pass away.

Jeremiah 31:35
Thus saith the Lord, who giveth the sun for the light of the day, the order of the moon and of the stars, for the light of the night: who stirreth up the sea, and the waves thereof roar, the Lord of hosts is his name.

Jeremiah 31:36
If these ordinances shall fail before me, saith the Lord: then also the seed of Israel shall fail, so as not to be a nation before me for ever.

Job 38:32
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