Jehovah, the Creator of the universe, “answered Job out of the whirlwind,” who had sought to learn the secrets of nature. Jehovah said to him:—
“Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days began, and caused the dayspring to know its place?
“Declare if thou knowest it all.
“Where is the way to the dwelling of light; and as for darkness, where is the place thereof?
“Doubtless thou knowest, for thou wast then born. And the number of thy days is great.” (Job xxxviii. 12, 18, 19, 21).
This is dawn in biblical language and in nature; but who would recognise it under the figure of Daphne, Eos, or Ahana? All of whom have so exercised the brains of our mythologists.
But Jehovah drives still more deeply the point of His discourse into the conscience of Job.
“Who hath cleft a channel for the water flood, to cause it to rain on a land where no man is?
“Hath the rain a father?
“Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?