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Job 38:7

When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? Morning stars - especially beautiful. The creation-morn is appropriately associated with these, it being the commencement of this world's day. The stars are figuratively said to sing God's praises, as in Psalms 19:1; Psalms 148:3. They are symbols of the angels, bearing the same relation to our earth as angels do to us. Therefore they answer to "sons of God" or angels, in the parallel (see note, Job 25:5).

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See also Job 38:7 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 38:7. _WHEN THE MORNING STARS SANG TOGETHER_] This must refer to some intelligent beings who existed before the creation of the visible heavens and earth: and it is supposed that this and t...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WHEN THE MORNING-STARS - There can be little doubt that angelic beings are intended here, though some have thought that the stars literally are referred to, and that they seemed to unite in a chorus o...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    V. THE LORD'S TESTIMONY TO JOB AND CONTROVERSY WITH HIM CHAPTER 38:1-38 _ 1. The Lord speaks to Job (Job 38:1)_ 2. The questions of the Lord (Job 38:4) Job 38:1. The voice of man is hushed; the voi...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE WONDERS OF THE INANIMATE CREATION. Where was Job when the earth was made? The work of creation is described as the building of a house. In Job 38:7 the stars, which are older than the world (contr...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    Yahweh, speaking to Job out of the storm, challenges him to the contest, which he has so often demanded....

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    STARS SANG. Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia._ App-6. See App-12. SONS OF GOD. angels. See note on Genesis 6:2, and the eight occurrences of the expression in O.T. See also App-23 and App-25....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A survey of the inanimate creation, the wonders of earth and sky the earth, Job 38:4; the heavens, Job 38:18...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Earth and sea....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    WHEN THE MORNING STARS SING TOGETHER— It is observable from many passages in the prophets, that the angels are compared to, or spoken of, under the metaphor of _stars:_ See particularly Isaiah 14:12....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _THE SHATTERING OF SILENCE_ VI. THE PRESENCE OF GOD AND THE PENITENCE OF JOB (Job 38:1, Job 42:6) A. INTEGRITY, CERTAINTY, AND KNOWLEDGE (Job 38:1, Job 40:2) 1.

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FIRST SPEECH OF THE ALMIGHTY (JOB 38:39) The marvels of creation, which witness to the infinite wisdom, power, and watchful care of the Creator, are presented to Job in such a way as to force fro...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SONS OF GOD] the angels. 8-11. The sea....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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 38 GOD BEGINS HIS SPEECH...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    God created the world. This was a wonderful event (Proverbs 8:22-31). This event showed God’s wisdom and God’s skill. God’s servants in heaven were so happy to see God’s work. Job did not even see thi...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE MORNING STARS. — The context seems to suggest that by the stars are meant the angels entrusted with their guardianship, from whence Milton has borrowed his conceptions. The magnificent sublimity o...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    בְּ רָן ־יַ֭חַד כֹּ֣וכְבֵי בֹ֑קֶר וַ֝ יָּרִ֗י

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    XXVII. "MUSIC IN THE BOUNDS OF LAW" Job 38:1 OVER the shadowed life of Job, and the world shadowed for him by his own intellectual and moral gloom, a storm sweeps, and from the storm issues a voice....

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    DIVINE POWER AND HUMAN IGNORANCE Job 38:1 When the storm had ceased and the thunder was hushed, a voice spoke out of the golden splendor of the sky. See Job 37:21. Job had challenged God to answer hi...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here begins the third movement in the great drama, that which deals with the controversy between Jehovah and Job. Out of the midst of the whirlwind the divine voice speaks. Its first word is a challen...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    When the morning stars (e) sang together, and all the (f) sons of God shouted for joy? (e) The stars and dumb creatures are said to praise God, because his power, wisdom and goodness is manifest and...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Sons. Septuagint, "all my angels." Hence it appears that the angels were among the first of God's works, formed probably at the same time with the heavens, (Calmet) or light, Genesis i. 3. (Haydock)...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (4) В¶ Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. (5) Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? ...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    God Speaks Job Repents I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week we covered a lot of territory! 1. We finished with Elihu's speeches to Job and found that, although he was a lot more accurate in what he had to...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 38 THROUGH 42. Jehovah then speaks, and addressing Job, carries on the subject. He makes Job sensible of his nothingness. Job confesses himself to be vile, an...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    WHEN THE MORNING STARS SANG TOGETHER,.... Either all the stars in a literal sense; for though, strictly speaking, there is but one morning star, yet all may be called so, because early created in the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? Ver. 7. _When the morning stars sang together_] There is but one morning star properly so called, viz. Phosphorus, Lucif...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened?_ This strong and durable building hath no foundations but God's power, which hath marvellously established it upon itself. _Who laid the corner-stone?_...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    when the morning stars, all the heavenly host, creatures of the highest brilliance, SANG TOGETHER AND ALL THE SONS OF GOD SHOUTED FOR JOY, in celebrating the festal occasion? Light and beauty and song...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE MANIFESTATION OF GOD'S MAJESTY IN CREATION...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    Marvellously, God Himself directly intervenes in this discussion so early in the history of man. The storm that had been brewing as Elihu spoke becomes a whirlwind, and God spoke to Job out of the whi...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    The morning stars could be Venus and Mercury. "The star's singing is. poetic personification. In Psalms 148:2-3 angels and stars are together commanded to praise the Lord" _(p. 767)._ This reveals tha...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    4-11 For the humbling of Job, God here shows him his ignorance, even concerning the earth and the sea. As we cannot find fault with God's work, so we need not fear concerning it. The works of his prov...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE MORNING STARS; either, 1. The stars properly so called, who are said to sing and praise God, objectively, because they give men ample occasion to do it in regard of their glorious light and stupe...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 38:7 morning H1242 stars H3556 sang H7442 (H8800) together H3162 sons H1121 God H430 shouted H7321 ...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    SONS OF GOD (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Job 38:6 The earth might have been regarded by the angels in reference either to its future inhabitants, or to God, or to the evil which had already found its way into the universe. I. In reference...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: God's challenge to Job. CHARACTERS: God, Job. CONCLUSION: Those who try to call God to account, will be called to account. Seeking to establish one's own character and darkening the counse...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 38:1. _The whirlwind._ Clouds and flames are the chariots of the Lord, in deigning to speak with men. When he spake to Elijah in Horeb, it was with wind, and fire, and earthquake. Likewise in Psal...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for Joy?_ THE SONG ETERNAL The mere creation of matter would be wonderful; but, to think that God put in that matter all that mi...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened?_ THE LAYING OF THE EARTH’S FOUNDATION STONE Our text brings before us a period long antecedent to the creation of man, when the first step was taken t...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 38:4 Job had begun by lamenting his birth and the timing of his life (ch. Job 3:1). Using the same language of birth, the Lord now asks Job about the birth of the universe. Can Job exp...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 38:7 The SONS OF GOD (compare Job 1:6 and note) are the heavenly beings surrounding God’s throne....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _JEHOVAH’S ADDRESS TO JOB_ Elihu had now said all he intended. Possibly interrupted by the storm which had been gathering during his speech. Out of the storm-cloud, from which already issued thunders...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    CLOSE OF THE CONTROVERSY BY THE INTERFERENCE OF THE ALMIGHTY. EXPOSITION The discourse, by which the Almighty answers Job and rebukes his "friends," occupies four chapters (ch. 38-41.). It is broken...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou m...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezra 3:11; Ezra 3:12; Job 1:6; Job 2:1; Psalms 104:4;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    GOD SPEAKS TO JOB Job 38:1 _to Job 42:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS God's words to Job do not carry much by way of the explanation of redemption. Job was a child of God, and well-instructed on those lines....

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Stars — The angels, who may well be called morning — stars, because of their excellent lustre and glory. Sons of God — The angels called the sons of God, because they had their whole being from him, a...

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