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Verse Job 38:27. _TO SATISFY THE DESOLATE AND WASTE_] The thunder
cloud not only explodes over _inhabited_ countries, that the air may
be purified and the rain sent down to fertilize the earth, but i...
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TO SATISFY THE DESOLATE AND WASTE GROUND - As if it lifted an
imploring voice to God, and he sent down the rain to satisfy it. The
desert is thus like a thirsty pilgrim. It is parched, and thirsty, an...
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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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The wonders of the heavens....
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The stormy wind, rain and lightning....
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Man is not, as he might think, the only object of God's regard. God is
great and His providence very wide. His goodness is over all His
works. He satisfies with rain the thirsty wilderness where no ma...
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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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_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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_TO SATISFY THE DESOLATE AND WASTE GROUND; AND TO CAUSE THE BUD OF THE
TENDER HERB TO SPRING FORTH?_
As though the desolate ground thirsted for God's showers.
Personification. The beauty imparted to...
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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 weather. And he uses the weather for his own
purposes. He even waters the grass where nobody lives (verse 27). A
man would not choose to water that grass. But God controls the whole
w...
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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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WHAT MAN CANNOT DO
Job 38:19
In this chapter a number of nature-pictures pass before us. These
include the creation of the earth, Job 38:4; the sea, Job 38:8; light,...
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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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(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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TO SATISFY THE DESOLATE AND WASTE [GROUND],.... Which is exceeding
desolate, and therefore two such words are used to express it; which
is so dry and thirsty that it is one of the four things that say...
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To satisfy the desolate and waste [ground]; and to cause the bud of
the tender herb to spring forth?
Ver. 27. _To satisfy the desolate and waste ground_] The waste and
waste ground, saith Broughton e...
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_To cause it to rain_, &c. That the clouds, being broken by lightning
and thunder, might pour down rain. _On the wilderness wherein there is
no man?_ Namely, no one to water those parts by art and ind...
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to satisfy the desolate and waste ground, the wilderness being thought
of as a parched wanderer, AND TO CAUSE THE BUD OF THE TENDER HERB TO
SPRING FORTH? Not only in inhabited districts of the world d...
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GOD'S MAJESTY IN THE FORCES OF NATUREV. 16. HAST THOU ENTERED INTO THE
SPRINGS OF THE SEA, the great fountains of the deep, Genesis 7, 11? OR
HAST THOU WALKED IN THE SEARCH OF THE DEPTH, to examine th...
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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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25-41 Hitherto God had put questions to Job to show him his
ignorance; now God shows his weakness. As it is but little that he
knows, he ought not to arraign the Divine counsels; it is but little
he...
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TO SATISFY, by raining, not sparingly, but liberally and abundantly
upon it. TO CAUSE THE BUD OF THE TENDER HERB TO SPRINGFORTH; there
being many excellent and useful herbs found in desert places, whi...
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Job 38:27 satisfy H7646 (H8687) desolate H7722 waste H4875 forth H6779
(H8687) growth H4161 grass H1877...
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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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_To cause it to rain on the earth._
RAIN AND GRACE-A COMPARISON
We shall work out a parallel between grace and rain.
I. God alone giveth rain and the same is true of grace. We say of rain
and of gra...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 38:12 The Lord reminds Job that he cannot see fully
what the Lord is doing about justice and judgment (see vv. Job 38:13,...
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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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To bring forth — Hitherto God has put such questions to Job, as were
proper to convince him of his ignorance. Now he comes to convince him
of his impotence. As it is but little that he can know, and t...