Job was equally ignorant of things he could not see, like the true nature of the ocean beds. The bottom of the ocean is not flat and sandy, but filled with deep recesses and subterranean springs. In modern times we have discovered that some of these recesses are over 30,000 feet deep.
Verse Job 38:16. _HAST THOU ENTERED INTO THE SPRINGS OF THE SEA_?] Of these _springs, inlets_, or _outlets_ of the sea, we know just as much as Job. There was prevalent among philosophers an opinion,...
HAST THOU ENTERED INTO THE SPRINGS OF THE SEA? - The word here rendered “springs” (נבך _nêbek_), occurs nowhere else in the Scriptures. It is rendered by the Vulgate _“profunda,”_ the deep parts; and...
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...
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...
SEARCH. secret....
A survey of the inanimate creation, the wonders of earth and sky the earth, Job 38:4; the heavens, Job 38:18...
_hast thou entered_ Perhaps, DIDST THOU ENTER? The whole passage seems under the influence of the first question, Job 38:4, Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Did Job then explo...
The deep and the underworld....
HAST THOU ENTERED INTO THE SPRINGS OF THE SEA?— _Hast thou been at the sources of the sea? Hast thou traversed the depths of the abyss?_ Heath....
_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.
_HAST THOU ENTERED INTO THE SPRINGS OF THE SEA? OR HAST THOU WALKED IN THE SEARCH OF THE DEPTH?_ Springs - fountains beneath the sea (Psalms 95:4). SEARCH, х_ CHEEQER_ (H2714)] - rather, the inmost...
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...
SEARCH OF THE DEPTH] RV 'recesses of the deep.'...
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...
Job did not know where people go after their deaths. He thought that they remained in their graves (Job 3:16-19). Later, he thought about hell (Job 26:5-6). Job’s words seemed to confident. But Job di...
THE SEARCH OF THE DEPTH — _i.e.,_ the secret recesses of it. The “springs of the sea” are rather, perhaps, the _mazes, intricacies, &c. of the trackless, pathless deep._ This leads to the cognate thou...
הֲ֭ בָאתָ עַד ־נִבְכֵי ־יָ֑ם וּ בְ
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....
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...
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...
Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the (m) depth? (m) If you are not able to seek out the depth of the sea, how much less are you able to comprehend t...
(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? ...
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...
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...
HAST THOU ENTERED INTO THE SPRINGS OF THE SEA?.... The subterraneous passages through which the waters flow into the sea and supply it; or the springs and fountains that rise up at the bottom of it i;...
Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth? Ver. 16. _Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea?_] Heb. into the tears of the sea, _Usque ad plo...
_Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea_ Hebrew, נבכי ים, _nibchee jam, Fletus, qui, ex maris profunditatibus currunt, ut lacrymæ ex occulis._ Schindler: _the springs which flow from the depths...
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...
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...
12-24 The Lord questions Job, to convince him of his ignorance, and shame him for his folly in prescribing to God. If we thus try ourselves, we shall soon be brought to own that what we know is nothi...
THE SPRINGS, Heb. _the tears_, i.e. the several springs out of which the waters of the sea flow as tears do from the eyes. Hast thou found out the utmost depth and bottom of the sea, which in divers p...
Job 38:16 entered H935 (H8804) springs H5033 sea H3220 walked H1980 (H8694) search H2714 depths H8415 the
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...
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...
_Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea?_ or hast thou walked in the search of the depth? HIGH TIDES What a fascination there is about a high tide! Passing through Manchester, I noticed that...
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,...
_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...
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...
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...
Jeremiah 51:36; Job 26:5; Job 26:6; Proverbs 8:24; Psalms 77:19...
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....
Springs — Heb. the tears; the several springs out of which the waters of the sea flow as tears do from the eyes. Walked — Hast thou found out the utmost depth of the sea, which in divers places could...