Job 38:12

38:12 Have you ever in your life ¹  commanded the morning,

or made the dawn know ²  its place,

Job 41:18

41:18 Its snorting throws out flashes of light;

its eyes are like the red glow ³  of dawn.

[38:12]  ¹ 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).

[38:12]  ² tn The verb is the Piel of יָדַע (yada’, “to know”) with a double accusative.

[41:18]  ³ tn Heb “the eyelids,” but it represents the early beams of the dawn as the cover of night lifts.