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Job 38:1-11
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Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind:
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"Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
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Gird up your loins like a man, I will question you, and you shall declare to me.
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"Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.
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Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it?
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On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone
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when the morning stars sang together and all the heavenly beings shouted for joy?
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"Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb?—
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when I made the clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band,
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and prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors,
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and said, "Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stopped'?
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Job 38:1-11 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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- [a]. Heb [sons of God]
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.