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Verse Job 28:25. _TO MAKE THE WEIGHT FOR THE WINDS_] God has given an
atmosphere to the earth, which, possessing a certain degree of
_gravity_ perfectly suited to the necessities of all animals, plan...
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TO MAKE THE WEIGHT FOR THE WINDS - That is, to weigh the winds and to
measure the waters - things that it would seem most difficult to do.
The idea here seems to be, that God had made all things by me...
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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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_to make the weight for the winds_ Or, MAKING (when he made),
appointing the winds their greater or less force. The idea is of
course that God weighed the winds themselves, i. e. defined their bulk
ex...
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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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_TO MAKE THE WEIGHT FOR THE WINDS; AND HE WEIGHETH THE WATERS BY
MEASURE._
God has adjusted the weight of the winds, so seemingly imponderable,
lest, if too weighty or too light, injury should be caus...
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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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RM 'When he maketh a weight for the wind: yea, he meteth out the
waters by measure,' i.e. the regulation by God of the forces of
nature....
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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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לַ עֲשֹׂ֣ות לָ † ר֣וּחַ מִשְׁקָ֑ל וּ֝...
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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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(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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TO MAKE THE WEIGHT FOR THE WIND,.... He indeed makes the wind itself,
holds it in his fists, and brings it forth out of his treasures, and
lets it go, or restrains it, at his pleasure; he gives it an...
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To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by
measure.
Ver. 25. _To make the weight for the winds_] He ordereth wind and
water, rain and thunder, _Pondere, mensura, numero, tacit om...
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_To make the weight for the winds_ His wisdom it is which sets things
in such exact order, and gives them such just measures, that the wind
cannot blow but in those proportions which he hath prescribe...
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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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to make the weight for the winds; and He weigheth the waters by
measure, they are entirely under His direction and government....
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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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God's wisdom is also seen in His orderly working of nature. "Although
storms appear to be without order, their elements were determined by
His wise, creative genius. The weight (force) of the wind, th...
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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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TO MAKE THE WEIGHT FOR THE WINDS; which of themselves are most light,
and without any weight, and inconstant, and such as no creature can
order or govern them: but God manageth them all by weight, app...
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Job 28:25 establish H6213 (H8800) weight H4948 wind H7307 apportion
H8505 (H8765) waters H4325 measure H4060...
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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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Isaiah 40:12; Psalms 135:7...
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Winds — God manageth them all by weight, appointing to every wind
that blows, its season, its proportion, its bounds, when, and where,
and how much, and how long each shall blow. He only doth all thes...