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Job 38:19

Job 38:19

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

Where [is] the way [where] light dwelleth?.... Or the way to the place where it dwells, and what that is;and [as for] darkness, where [is] the place thereof? where these were placed when they were first separated at the creation?

where light goes and dwells, when it departs from us at sun setting? and where the darkness betakes itself, and makes its abode at sun rising? What is the chamber of the sun, and the tabernacle of it?

from whence it sets out, and whither it returns?

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