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Verse Job 38:6. _WHEREUPON ARE THE FOUNDATIONS THEREOF FASTENED?_] How
does it continue to revolve in the immensity of space? What _supports_
it? Has it foundations like a _building_, and is it fasten...
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WHEREUPON ARE THE FOUNDATIONS - Margin, “sockets.” The Hebrew word
(אדן _'eden_) means “a basis,” as of a column, or a pedestal;
and then also the foundation of a building. The language here is
eviden...
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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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Yahweh, speaking to Job out of the storm, challenges him to the
contest, which he has so often demanded....
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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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_are the foundations fastened_ Or, WERE THE FOUNDATIONS SUNK? All the
_tenses_here should be put in the simple past.
The creation of the earth is likened to the rearing of a great
edifice, whose exte...
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Earth and 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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_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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_WHEREUPON ARE THE FOUNDATIONS THEREOF FASTENED? OR WHO LAID THE
CORNER STONE THEREOF;_
Foundations - not sockets, as margin.
FASTENED - literally, made to sink, as a foundation-stone let down
unti...
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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 created the world. This was a wonderful event (Proverbs 8:22-31).
This event showed God’s wisdom and God’s skill. God’s servants
in heaven were so happy to see God’s work. Job did not even see thi...
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עַל ־מָ֭ה אֲדָנֶ֣יהָ הָטְבָּ֑עוּ אֹ֥ו
מִֽי ־י
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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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(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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WHEREUPON ARE THE FOUNDATIONS THEREOF FASTENED?.... Or the pillars of
it, as Ben Gersom interprets it; see Psalms 75:3; and which Aben Ezra
understands of the mountains: but be they what they may, on...
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_Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the
corner stone thereof;_
Ver. 6. _Whereupon are the foundations thereof fasttened?_] Surely,
upon nothing, but the word of God's power....
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_Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened?_ This strong and
durable building hath no foundations but God's power, which hath
marvellously established it upon itself. _Who laid the corner-stone?_...
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Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? That is, on what kind
of foundation are its pillars sunken? What takes it stand so firm and
safe? OR WHO LAID THE CORNER-STONE THEREOF, with the certain...
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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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FOUNDATIONS:
_ Heb._ sockets
FASTENED?:
_ Heb._ made to sink
THY PROUD WAVES:
_ Heb._ the pride of thy waves...
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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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This strong and durable building hath no foundations but in God's
power and word, which hath marvellously established it upon itself. OR
WHO LAID THE CORNERSTONE THEREOF; by which the several walls an...
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Job 38:6 foundations H134 fastened H2883 (H8717) laid H3384 (H8804)
cornerstone H6438 H68
Whereupon -...
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Job 38:6
The earth might have been regarded by the angels in reference either
to its future inhabitants, or to God, or to the evil which had already
found its way into the universe.
I. In reference...
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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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_Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened?_
THE LAYING OF THE EARTH’S FOUNDATION STONE
Our text brings before us a period long antecedent to the creation of
man, when the first step was taken t...
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JOB 38:1 Challenge: The Lord Answers Job. The Lord responds in two
speeches, each followed by a brief response from Job. Aware of God as
never before, Job responds by humbly submitting to God’s sovere...
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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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1 Samuel 2:8; 2 Peter 3:5; Ephesians 2:20; Ephesians 2:21; Exodus 26:1
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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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Foundations — This strong and durable building hath no foundations
but God's power, which hath marvelously established it upon itself.
Cornerstone — By which the several walls are joined and fastened...