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Verse Job 38:9. _WHEN I MAKE THE CLOUD THE GARMENT_] Alluding to the
cloth in which the new-born infant is first received. The _cloud_ was
the same to the newly raised _vapour_, as the above recipient...
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WHEN I MADE THE CLOUD THE GARMENT THEREOF - Referring to the garment
in which the new-born infant is wrapped up. This image is one of great
beauty. It is that of the vast ocean just coming into being,...
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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...
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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...
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Yahweh, speaking to Job out of the storm, challenges him to the
contest, which he has so often demanded....
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THICK DARKNESS. Hebrew. _'araphel._ See note on Job 3:6....
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_thick darkness_ Or, AND THE THICK CLOUD....
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The sea....
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A survey of the inanimate creation, the wonders of earth and sky the
earth, Job 38:4; the heavens, Job 38:18...
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Earth and sea....
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_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.
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_WHEN I MADE THE CLOUD THE GARMENT THEREOF, AND THICK DARKNESS A
SWADDLINGBAND FOR IT,_
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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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...
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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 38
GOD BEGINS HIS SPEECH...
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God controls the sea. Job and his friends realised that the sea was a
dangerous place. Strange animals lived in the water (chapter 41). The
men spoke about terrible floods (Job 22:11). But a great ani...
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בְּ שׂוּמִ֣י עָנָ֣ן לְבֻשֹׁ֑ו וַ֝
עֲרָפֶ֗ל חֲ
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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....
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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...
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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...
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When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a (g)
swaddlingband for it,
(g) As though the great sea was but as a little baby in the hands of
God to turn to and fro....
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_Mist. So Moses says darkness was on the face of the abyss. Obscurity
covered it, as swaddling bands do a child's body. (Calmet)_...
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(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? ...
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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...
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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...
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WHEN I MADE THE CLOUD THE GARMENT THEREOF,.... For this newborn babe,
the sea;
AND THICK DARKNESS A SWADDLING BAND FOR IT; which was the case of the
sea when it burst out of the bowels of the earth a...
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When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a
swaddlingband for it,
Ver. 9. _When I made the cloud the garment thereof_] When I clothed
this new born child with a cloud, _Elegans al...
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_Who shut up the sea with doors?_ Who was it that set bounds to the
vast and raging ocean, and shut it up, as it were, with doors within
its proper place, that it might not overflow the earth? _When i...
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When I made the cloud the garment thereof, wrapping the mighty ocean
in swaddling-clothes, like a helpless infant, AND THICK DARKNESS, that
of the heaviest cloud-covering, A SWADDLING-BAND FOR IT,...
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THE MANIFESTATION OF GOD'S MAJESTY IN CREATION...
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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...
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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...
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When I covered it with vapours and clouds which arise out of the sea.
and by God's appointment hover above it, and cover it like a garment.
THICK DARKNESS, i. e. black and dark clouds, called _darknes...
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Job 38:9 made H7760 (H8800) clouds H6051 garment H3830 darkness H6205
band H2854
thick - Genesis 1:2
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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The cloud — When I covered it with vapours and clouds which rise out
of the sea, and hover above it, and cover it like a garment. Darkness
— Black and dark clouds. Swaddling band — Having compared the...