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Job 38:12-24

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12 Have you ever in your life commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,
13 so it may seize the edges of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?
14 The earth is changed as clay is by a seal; [its hills] stand out like [the folds of] a garment.
15 Light[a] is withheld from the wicked, and the arm raised [in violence] is broken.
16 Have you traveled to the sources of the sea or walked in the depths of the oceans?
17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of death's shadow?[b]
18 Have you comprehended the extent of the earth? Tell [Me], if you know all this.
19 Where is the road to the home of light? [Do you know] where darkness lives,[c]
20 so you can lead it back to its border? Are you familiar with the paths to its home?
21 Don't you know? You were already born;[d] you have lived so long![e]
22 Have you entered the [place] where the snow is stored? Or have you seen the storehouses of hail,[f]
23 which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of warfare and battle?[g]
24 What road leads to [the place] where light is dispersed?[h] [Where is the source of] the east wind that spreads across the earth?[i]
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Job 38:12-24 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 38

In this chapter the Lord takes up the controversy with Job; calls upon him to prepare to engage with him in it, and demands an answer to posing questions he puts to him, concerning the earth and the fabric of it, Job 38:1-7; concerning the sea, compared to an infant in embryo, at its birth, in its swaddling bands and cradle, Job 38:8-11; concerning the morning light, its spread and influence, Job 38:12-15; concerning the springs of the sea, the dark parts of the earth, the place both of light and darkness, Job 38:16-21; concerning the various meteors, snow, hail, rain, thunder, lightning, and the influences of the stars, Job 38:22-38; and concerning provision for lions and ravens, Job 38:40,41.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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Footnotes 9

  • [a] Lit Their light
  • [b] Jb 10:21-22; 12:22; 24:17
  • [c] Jb 10:21; Ps 139:11-12
  • [d] Jb 15:7
  • [e] Lit born; the number of your days is great
  • [f] Jb 37:6; Ex 9:18; Ps 18:12
  • [g] Jos 10:11; Ezk 13:13; Rv 16:21
  • [h] Or where lightning is distributed
  • [i] Jb 28:25; Jnh 4:8
Holman Christian Standard Bible ® Copyright © 2003, 2002, 2000, 1999 by Holman Bible Publishers.  Used by permission.  All rights reserved.

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