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Verse Job 28:26. _WHEN HE MADE A DECREE FOR THE RAIN_] When he
determined how that should be _generated_, viz., By the _heat_ of the
sun _evaporation_ is produced: the particles of vapour being light...
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WHEN HE MADE A DECREE FOR THE RAIN - A statute or law (חק _chôq_)
by which the rain is regulated. It is not sent by chance or
hap-hazard. It is under the operation of regular and settled laws. We
can...
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CHAPTER 28
_ 1. The treasures of the earth (Job 28:1)_
2. The better treasures (Job 28:7)
3. God knoweth the way and the true wisdom (Job 28:23)...
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JOB 28. Here again we come to a critical question. It is difficult to
fit this chapter into the argument, whether Job 27:7 is given to Job
or to Zophar. It is a widely accepted conclusion of scholars...
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Wisdom can nowhere be found either by man or by any creature (Job
28:21), only by the Creator. _God_knoweth the place of it and is in
possession of it, for He is the maker and upholder of the universe...
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_a decree for the rain_ This "decree" comprises all the laws that
regulate the rain, appointing its measure and its seasons as early and
latter rain....
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The idea of the preceding verse taken up anew and expanded in creation
God saw Wisdom and searched it out....
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GOD UNDERSTANDETH THE WAY THEREOF— Job having observed, that the
generations of men who had lived in former ages had said, concerning
wisdom, _we have heard the fame thereof with our ears,_ adds, that...
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2. But where wisdom is, man cannot discover; only God knows. (Job
28:12-28)
TEXT 28:12-28
12 BUT WHERE SHALL WISDOM BE FOUND?
And where is the place of understanding?
13 Man knoweth not the price...
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A decree for the rain] i.e. for its regulation....
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THE MYSTERY OF DIVINE WISDOM
In this famous chapter Job declares that Wisdom—that is, the
principle of the divine government of the world—is a mystery not to
be solved by man. Man's wisdom lies in fea...
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible.
This commentary has been through Advanced Checking.
CHAPTER 28
JOB’S POEM ABOUT WISDOM...
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These verses are similar to Proverbs 8:22-31. God himself used wisdom
when he created the world.
V27 God saw wisdom!
God declared wisdom!...
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בַּ עֲשֹׂתֹ֣ו לַ † מָּטָ֣ר חֹ֑ק וְ֝...
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XXIII.
CHORAL INTERLUDE
Job 28:1
THE controversy at length closed, the poet breaks into a chant of the
quest of Wisdom. It can hardly be supposed to have been uttered or
sung by Job. But if we may g...
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THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE
Job 28:1
A search for this pearl of great price has occupied men in every age.
Job compares it with the search of the miner for the hidden treasures
of the earth, Job 28:1. T...
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In a fine passage Job now discussed the question of wisdom. What was
supremely lacking in his friends' dealing with him was wisdom to
understand. As an introduction to the main statement of his argume...
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_Storms; or Hebrew, "for the lightning, which attends thunder."
(Calmet)_...
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(20) В¶ Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of
understanding? (21) Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and
kept close from the fowls of the air. (22) Destruction and death say,...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31.
As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks.
They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure
and...
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WHEN HE MADE A DECREE FOR THE RAIN, AND A WAY FOR THE LIGHTNING OF THE
THUNDER. Decreed within himself that he would give it; for rain is his
gift alone, and which none of the vanities of the Gentiles...
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When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the
thunder:
Ver. 26. _When he made a decree for the rain_] And hence it is that
it raineth upon one city, and not upon another, Amo...
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_When_ At the first creation, he settled that course and order which
should afterward be continued; _he made a decree for the rain_ An
appointment, and, as it were, a statute law, that it should fall...
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When He made a decree for the rain, appointing to it when and how
often it should fall, AND A WAY FOR THE LIGHTNING OF THE THUNDER, a
path for the thunder-flash through the clouds, all these phenomena...
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God Alone The Possessor of True Wisdom.
Over against man's foolish quest for vain and unstable riches Job
places the wisdom of God, unattainable by the outward seeking and
searching of men....
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EARTH'S MEASURED TREASURES
(vv.1-6)
Job has spoken of the folly of wicked men. Now he shows that which
stands in beautiful contrast to Chapter 27. The language here is
magnificent, as Job considers...
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20-28 There is a two-fold wisdom; one hid in God, which is secret,
and belongs not to us; the other made known by him, and revealed to
man. One day's events, and one man's affairs, have such referenc...
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WHEN HE MADE; which was either from eternity, or at the first
creation, when he settled that course and order which should
afterwards be continued. Or, _when he maketh_: but our translation
seems best...
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Job 28:26 made H6213 (H8800) law H2706 rain H4306 path H1870
thunderbolt H2385 H6963
he made -...
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Job 28:1 , JOB 28:12; JOB 28:20
This chapter falls naturally into three sections, the first two
sections being terminated by this question, with a slight variety of
statement: "Whence then cometh wisd...
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CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. The value of divine wisdom.
CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends.
CONCLUSION: To be truly religious is to be truly wise. If we know God,
His wisdom will appear in the prac...
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Job 28:2. _Brass is molten,_ melted out of ores of zinc, lapis
calaminaris, light perforated ores, found on Mendip hills in Somerset,
Derbyshire, and other places.
Job 28:4. _The flood breaketh out fr...
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_But where shall wisdom be found?_
THE SPECULATIVE DIFFICULTIES OF AN INQUIRING INTELLECT SOLVED BY THE
HEART OF PRACTICAL PIETY
Two things are prominently developed in this chapter--Man’s power
and...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 28:23 Only GOD UNDERSTANDS and KNOWS wisdom and how
it is acquired (v. Job 28:23). God gives wisdom, and it is defined in
re
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_JOB’S DESCANT ON TRUE WISDOM_
The place occupied by this chapter one peculiar to itself. Its
connection with the preceding or succeeding portions of the book by no
means obvious. Appears scarcely to...
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EXPOSITION
JOB 28:1
The connection of this chapter with the preceding is somewhat obscure.
Probably we are to regard Job as led to see, even while he is
justifying God's ways with sinners (Job 27:8),...
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Now, Job said, turning now to a different vein of thought, he said,
"Now, there are places where gold is discovered and silver is
discovered, and iron and brass, men dig the shafts, they follow the
ve...
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Amos 4:7; Jeremiah 14:22; Job 36:26; Job 36:32; Job 37:3;...
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When — At the first creation, when he settled that course and order
which should he continued. A decree — An appointment and as it were
a statute law, that it should fall upon the earth, in such times...