for: Job 13:15, Job 13:22, Job 23:3-7, Job 31:35-37
answer thou me: Heb. make me know
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Job 38:3
Job 38:3
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Job 38 — OverviewJob 38 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleIn most disputes the strife is who shall have the last word. Job's
friends had, in this controversy, tamely yielded it to Job, and then he
to Elihu. But, after all the wranglings of the counsel at bar, the…Job 38 — OverviewJob 38 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeJob 38:1, God challenges Job to answer; Job 38:4, God, by his mighty works, convinces Job of ignorance, Job 38:31, and of imbecility.Job 38 — OverviewJob 38 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleIn 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 itJob 38:1-3Job 38:1-3 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleLet us observe here, 1. Who speaks--The Lord, Jehovah, not a created
angel, but the eternal Word himself, the second person in the blessed
Trinity, for it is he by whom the worlds were made, and that was no…Job 38:1-3Job 38:1-3 · The Pulpit CommentaryJehovah to Job: the first answer-the theophany.
I. THE LORD'S APPEARANCE TO JOB.
1. The time of this appearance. At the close of Elihu's address. Not too soon, when neither had Elihu finished his expositions nor had…Job 38:1-41Job 38:1-41 · The Pulpit CommentaryCLOSE OF THE CONTROVERSY BY THE INTERFERENCE OF THE ALMIGHTY.
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The discourse, by which the Almighty answers Job and rebukes his "friends," occupies four chapters (ch. 38-41.). It is broken into two parts by…
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