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Verse Job 38:30. _THE WATERS ARE HID AS_ WITH _A STONE_] Here is a
reference to _freezing_ in the winter, as we may learn from some of
the constellations mentioned below, which arise above our horizon...
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THE WATERS ARE HID AS WITH A STONE - The solid ice is laid as a stone
upon them, wholly concealing them from view.
AND THE FACE OF THE DEEP IS FROZEN - Margin, “taken.” The idea is,
they seem to take...
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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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_as with a stone_ lit. _the waters hide themselves like a stone_, that
is, becoming like stone.
_is frozen_ lit. _cleaveth together_. The phenomenon of ice, rare in
the East, naturally appeared wonde...
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Rain, dew, frost and ice....
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The wonders of the heavens....
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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 WATERS ARE HID AS WITH A STONE— _How do the waters harden like a
stone? and the face of the waters, how is it congealed?_ Houb....
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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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_THE WATERS ARE HID AS WITH A STONE, AND THE FACE OF THE DEEP IS
FROZEN._
The unfrozen waters are hidden under the frozen, as with a covering of
stone.
FROZEN - literally, is taken: the particles х...
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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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Render, 'The waters are congealed like stone.'
31A. Render, 'Canst thou group together the Pleiades?' SWEET
INFLUENCES] RV 'cluster.'
PLEIADES] see on Job 9:9....
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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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THE WATERS ARE HID. — Or, _The waters hide themselves and become
like stone._ Water loses its familiar quality, and is turned into
stone....
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כָּ֭ † אֶבֶן מַ֣יִם יִתְחַבָּ֑אוּ וּ
פְנֵ֥י...
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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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THE WATERS ARE HID AS [WITH] A STONE,.... The surface of the waters by
frost become as hard as a stone, and will bear great burdens, and
admit of carriages to pass over them c where ships went before;...
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The waters are hid as [with] a stone, and the face of the deep is
frozen.
Ver. 30. _The waters are hid as with a stone_] This is a further
description of ice, which is hard as a stone and clear as cr...
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_Hath the rain a father?_ Is there any man that can beget or produce
rain at his pleasure? No; this is my peculiar work. _The hoary frost,
who hath gendered it?_ What man can either produce, or doth f...
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The waters are hid as with a stone, drawing themselves together in a
rigid mass as the frost takes hold of them, AND THE FACE OF THE DEEP
IS FROZEN, hanging together in a solid mass....
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God's Majesty in the Wonders above the Earth...
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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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IS FROZEN:
_ Heb._ is taken...
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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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AS WITH A STONE, i.e. with ice as hard as a stone. THE FACE OF THE
DEEP, i.e. the great sea, which is oft called _the deep_, as Genesis
7:11 Psalms 107:24 Isaiah 51:10,...
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Job 38:30 waters H4325 harden H2244 (H8691) stone H68 surface H6440
deep H8415 frozen H3920 (H8691)
the fac
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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 37:10...
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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....