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Job 38:11-21

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11 and said, 'Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your 1proud waves be stayed'?
12 "Have you 2commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place,
13 that it might take hold of 3the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be 4shaken out of it?
14 It is changed like clay under the seal, and its features stand out like a garment.
15 From the wicked their 5light is withheld, and 6their uplifted arm is broken.
16 "Have you 7entered into the springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep?
17 Have 8the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of 9deep darkness?
18 Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth? Declare, if you know all this.
19 "Where is the way to the dwelling of light, and where is the place of darkness,
20 that you may take it to its territory and that you may discern 10the paths to its home?
21 You know, for 11you were born then, and the number of your days is great!
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Job 38:11-21 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

Cross References 11

  • 1. [Psalms 65:7; Psalms 89:9; Psalms 93:4]
  • 2. Psalms 65:8; Psalms 74:16
  • 3. Job 37:3
  • 4. [Nehemiah 5:13]
  • 5. Job 18:5; [Matthew 6:23]; See Job 24:13-17
  • 6. Psalms 10:15; Psalms 37:17; Ezekiel 30:21, 22
  • 7. Psalms 77:19
  • 8. Psalms 9:13; Psalms 107:18; [Isaiah 38:10; Matthew 16:18]
  • 9. See Job 3:5
  • 10. Job 24:13
  • 11. [Job 15:7]
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