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13861 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 472.9 (Matthew Henry)
… , Job 38:41, 104:21. But what reason have men to expect relief, who are capable of enquiring after God as their Maker and yet cry to him no otherwise than as brutes …
13862 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 472.12 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Isaiah 38:11 ), I shall not see the Lord. As, when we are in prosperity, we are ready to think our mountain will never be brought low, so when we are in adversity we are …
13863 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 473.25 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Job 38:26, 104:11 ), yet special respect is had to man herein, to whom the inferior creatures are all made serviceable and from whom the actual return of the tribute …
13864 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 474.2 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Job 38:1 ), these were, as afterwards on Mount Sinai, the proper prefaces to command attention and awe. Observe here, 1. How Elihu was himself affected, and desired …
13865 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 474.5 (Matthew Henry)
… , Job 38:1. Or, if turbulent winds which bring showers come out of the south, cold and drying blasts come out of the north to scatter the vapours and clear the air …
13866 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 475.1 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Job 38:28-38:30, 38:34, 38:35, 38:37, 38:38 ), nothing towards the directing of the stars and their influences ( Job 38:31-38:33 ), nothing towards the making of his own soul …
13867 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 475.2 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Job 38:2 ): “ Who is this that talks at this rate? Isa. it Job? What! a man? That weak, foolish, despicable, creature—shall he pretend to prescribe to me what I must do or to …
13868 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 475.5 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Job 38:4 ): “ Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth ? Thy pretensions are high; canst thou pretend to his? Wast thou present when the world was made …
13869 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 475.6 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Job 38:5 ): “Stand forth, and tell who laid the measures thereof and stretched out the line upon it .” Wast thou the architect that formed the model and then drew the …
13870 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 475.7 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Job 38:7 ), when the morning-stars sang together, the blessed angels (the first-born of the Father of light), who, in the morning of time, shone as brightly as the morning …
13871 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 475.8 (Matthew Henry)
… , Job 38:8 This refers to the third day’s work, when God said ( Genesis 1:9 ), Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and it was so. 1. Out of …
13872 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 475.10 (Matthew Henry)
… , Job 38:12-38:15. As there is no visible being of which we may be more firmly assured that it is, so there is none which we are more puzzled in describing, nor more …
13873 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 475.11 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Job 38:16 ): “ Hast thou entered into them, or hast thou walked in the search of the depth ? Knowest thou what lies in the bottom of the sea, the treasures there hidden …
13874 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 475.12 (Matthew Henry)
… ? Job 38:16. Death is a grand secret. 1. We know not beforehand when, and how, and by what means, we or others shall be brought to death, by what road we must go the way whence …
13875 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 475.13 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Job 38:18 ): Hast thou perceived that? The knowledge of this might seem most level to him and within his reach; yet he is challenged to declare this if he can. We have …
13876 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 475.14 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Job 38:12 ) and he returns to speak of it again ( Job 38:19 ): Where is the way where light dwells ? And again ( Job 38:24 ): By what way is the light parted ? He challenges him …
13877 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 475.15 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Job 38:22, 38:23 ): “ Hast thou entered into these and taken a view of them?” In the clouds the snow and hail are generated, and thence they come in such abundance that …
13878 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 475.19 (Matthew Henry)
… , Job 38:25. He has divided a water-course, directs the rain where to fall, even when the shower is most violent, with as much certainty as if it were conveyed by canals …
13879 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 475.21 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Job 38:26, 38:27 ), where no man is. [1.] Where there is no man to be employed in taking care of the productions. God’s providence reaches further than man’s industry …
13880 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 475.22 (Matthew Henry)
… , Job 38:28. It has no other father. He produces it by his power; he governs and directs it, and makes what use he pleases of it. Even the small drops of the dew he distils …