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KNOWEST THOU IT, BECAUSE THOU WAST THEN BORN? - This may either be a
question, or it may be spoken ironically. According to the former mode
of rendering it, it is the same as asking Job whether he had...
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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 verse is ironical,
Thou knowest; for thou wast then born,
And the number of thy days is great.
The words "thou knowest" refer to the question, Job 38:19, Which is
the way …? Job knows the way t...
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The wonders of the heavens....
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Light and darkness....
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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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_KNOWEST THOU IT, BECAUSE THOU WAST THEN BORN? OR BECAUSE THE NUMBER
OF THY DAYS IS GREAT?_
Or, without the interrogation, in an ironical sense (Umbreit).
THEN - when I created light and darkness ...
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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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KNOWEST THOU _it_] RV '_Doubtless_ thou knowest': spoken ironically.
22-30. The secrets of show and hail, rain and frost....
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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 was using humour in this verse. The men thought that older people
would be wiser (Job 12:12). Job spoke as if he was a very wise man.
God joked that Job could not be old enough to be that wise!
G...
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KNOWEST THOU IT? — It is better to read this verse without an
interrogation, as sublime irony. “Doubtless thou knowest all this,
for thou wast born then, and the number of thy days is so great!”...
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יָ֭דַעְתָּ כִּי ־אָ֣ז תִּוָּלֵ֑ד וּ
מִסְפַּ֖ר...
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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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KNOWEST THOU [IT], BECAUSE THOU WAST THEN BORN?.... When light and
darkness were first separated, and had their several apartments
assigned them; their laws and rules given them, and their bounds and...
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Knowest thou [it], because thou wast then born? or [because] the
number of thy days [is] great?
Ver. 21. _Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born?_] Beza
readeth it thus, These things, forsooth,...
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_Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born?_ An ironical question.
If thou pretendest that thou knowest these things, how camest thou by
this knowledge? Was it because thou didst then exist in the...
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Knowest thou it because thou wast then born? Was Job present at the
creation of light, so that he understood all its secrets, OR BECAUSE
THE NUMBER OF THY DAYS IS GREAT? In a sharply ironical veil the...
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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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Here is God's way of ironically affirming that Job did not know, since
he was not around, when God set the earth's rotation in motion. His
years were few compared to God's eternal nature.
Note that if...
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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...
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An ironical question: If thou pretendest that thou knowest these
things, and canst readily answer these questions, how comest thou by
this knowledge? Was it from hence, because thou wast born when I m...
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Job 38:21 know H3045 (H8804) born H3205 (H8735) number H4557 days
H3117 great H7227...
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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 38:12 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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Job 15:7; Job 38:12; Job 38:4...
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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....