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Verse Job 38:8. WHO _SHUT UP THE SEA WITH DOORS_] Who _gathered the
waters_ _together into one place_, and fixed the sea its limits, so
that it cannot overpass them to inundate the earth?
_WHEN IT B...
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OR WHO SHUT UP THE SEA WITH DOORS - This refers also to the act of the
creation, and to the fact that God fixed limits to the raging of the
ocean. The word “doors” is used here rather to denote gates,...
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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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WHEN IT BRAKE FORTH, AS IF IT HAD ISSUED OUT OF THE WOMB— _When it
burst forth as an infant, that cometh out of the womb._ Heath....
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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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_OR WHO SHUT UP THE SEA WITH DOORS, WHEN IT BRAKE FORTH, AS IF IT HAD
ISSUED OUT OF THE WOMB?_
Doors - flood-gates; these when opened caused the flood (Genesis
7:11); or else the shores.
WOMB - of c...
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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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WHEN IT BRAKE FORTH] The ancients thought that the sea issued from the
subterranean abyss, with which it was connected by springs in the bed
of the ocean: cp. Job 38:16 and Genesis 7:11.
10A. Render,...
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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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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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וַ יָּ֣סֶךְ בִּ דְלָתַ֣יִם יָ֑ם בְּ֝
גִיחֹ֗ו
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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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_Shut. Hebrew also, (Haydock) "facilitated the birth of the sea," as a
midwife. (Grotius) (Calmet) --- Forth. Septuagint, "raged." (Haydock)
--- God represents the waters ready to overwhelm all when f...
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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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OR [WHO] SHUT UP THE SEA WITH DOORS,.... From the earth the transition
is to the sea, according to the order of the creation; and this refers
not to the state and case of the sea as at the flood, of w...
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Or [who] shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, [as if] it
had issued out of the womb?
Ver. 8. _Or who shut up the sea with doors_] _i.e._ With bounds and
banks. The sea God shut up in the...
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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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Or who shut up the sea with doors, penning it up in the bed of the
ocean, WHEN IT BRAKE FORTH AS IF IT HAD ISSUED OUT OF THE WOMB, when
order was established out of chaos and the raging and swelling w...
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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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While the origin of the earth was pictured as the construction of.
building (Job 38:4-7), the origin of the oceans is described in terms
associated with childbirth. "In Mesopotamian and Ugaritic mytho...
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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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Who was it, thou or I, that did set bounds to the vast and raging
ocean, and shut it up as it were with doors within its proper place
and storehouse, that it might not overflow the earth; which withou...
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Job 38:8 shut H5526 (H8686) sea H3220 doors H1817 forth H1518 (H8800)
issued H3318 (H8799) womb...
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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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Genesis 1:9; Jeremiah 5:22; Job 38:10; Job 38:29; Proverbs 8:29;...
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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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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? Break forth — From the womb or bo...