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Job 28:25
to make the weight for the winds; and He weigheth the waters by measure, they are entirely under His direction and government.
to make the weight for the winds; and He weigheth the waters by measure, they are entirely under His direction and government.
Verse Job 28:25. _TO MAKE THE WEIGHT FOR THE WINDS_] God has given an atmosphere to the earth, which, possessing a certain degree of _gravity_ perfectly suited to the necessities of all animals, plan...
TO MAKE THE WEIGHT FOR THE WINDS - That is, to weigh the winds and to measure the waters - things that it would seem most difficult to do. The idea here seems to be, that God had made all things by me...
CHAPTER 28 _ 1. The treasures of the earth (Job 28:1)_ 2. The better treasures (Job 28:7) 3. God knoweth the way and the true wisdom (Job 28:23)...
JOB 28. Here again we come to a critical question. It is difficult to fit this chapter into the argument, whether Job 27:7 is given to Job or to Zophar. It is a widely accepted conclusion of scholars...
_to make the weight for the winds_ Or, MAKING (when he made), appointing the winds their greater or less force. The idea is of course that God weighed the winds themselves, i. e. defined their bulk ex...
Wisdom can nowhere be found either by man or by any creature (Job 28:21), only by the Creator. _God_knoweth the place of it and is in possession of it, for He is the maker and upholder of the universe...
GOD UNDERSTANDETH THE WAY THEREOF— Job having observed, that the generations of men who had lived in former ages had said, concerning wisdom, _we have heard the fame thereof with our ears,_ adds, that...
2. But where wisdom is, man cannot discover; only God knows. (Job 28:12-28) TEXT 28:12-28 12 BUT WHERE SHALL WISDOM BE FOUND? And where is the place of understanding? 13 Man knoweth not the price...
_TO MAKE THE WEIGHT FOR THE WINDS; AND HE WEIGHETH THE WATERS BY MEASURE._ God has adjusted the weight of the winds, so seemingly imponderable, lest, if too weighty or too light, injury should be caus...
THE MYSTERY OF DIVINE WISDOM In this famous chapter Job declares that Wisdom—that is, the principle of the divine government of the world—is a mystery not to be solved by man. Man's wisdom lies in fea...
RM 'When he maketh a weight for the wind: yea, he meteth out the waters by measure,' i.e. the regulation by God of the forces of nature....
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 28 JOB’S POEM ABOUT WISDOM...
These verses are similar to Proverbs 8:22-31. God himself used wisdom when he created the world. V27 God saw wisdom! God declared wisdom!...
לַ עֲשֹׂ֣ות לָ † ר֣וּחַ מִשְׁקָ֑ל וּ֝...
XXIII. CHORAL INTERLUDE Job 28:1 THE controversy at length closed, the poet breaks into a chant of the quest of Wisdom. It can hardly be supposed to have been uttered or sung by Job. But if we may g...
THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE Job 28:1 A search for this pearl of great price has occupied men in every age. Job compares it with the search of the miner for the hidden treasures of the earth, Job 28:1. T...
In a fine passage Job now discussed the question of wisdom. What was supremely lacking in his friends' dealing with him was wisdom to understand. As an introduction to the main statement of his argume...
_Measure. He regulates the winds, and know the drops of water, (Haydock) which to man is impossible, Proverbs xvi. 2._...
(20) В¶ Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding? (21) Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. (22) Destruction and death say,...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
TO MAKE THE WEIGHT FOR THE WIND,.... He indeed makes the wind itself, holds it in his fists, and brings it forth out of his treasures, and lets it go, or restrains it, at his pleasure; he gives it an...
To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure. Ver. 25. _To make the weight for the winds_] He ordereth wind and water, rain and thunder, _Pondere, mensura, numero, tacit om...
_To make the weight for the winds_ His wisdom it is which sets things in such exact order, and gives them such just measures, that the wind cannot blow but in those proportions which he hath prescribe...
EARTH'S MEASURED TREASURES (vv.1-6) Job has spoken of the folly of wicked men. Now he shows that which stands in beautiful contrast to Chapter 27. The language here is magnificent, as Job considers...
God's wisdom is also seen in His orderly working of nature. "Although storms appear to be without order, their elements were determined by His wise, creative genius. The weight (force) of the wind, th...
20-28 There is a two-fold wisdom; one hid in God, which is secret, and belongs not to us; the other made known by him, and revealed to man. One day's events, and one man's affairs, have such referenc...
TO MAKE THE WEIGHT FOR THE WINDS; which of themselves are most light, and without any weight, and inconstant, and such as no creature can order or govern them: but God manageth them all by weight, app...
Job 28:25 establish H6213 (H8800) weight H4948 wind H7307 apportion H8505 (H8765) waters H4325 measure H4060...
Job 28:1 , JOB 28:12; JOB 28:20 This chapter falls naturally into three sections, the first two sections being terminated by this question, with a slight variety of statement: "Whence then cometh wisd...
CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. The value of divine wisdom. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: To be truly religious is to be truly wise. If we know God, His wisdom will appear in the prac...
Job 28:2. _Brass is molten,_ melted out of ores of zinc, lapis calaminaris, light perforated ores, found on Mendip hills in Somerset, Derbyshire, and other places. Job 28:4. _The flood breaketh out fr...
_But where shall wisdom be found?_ THE SPECULATIVE DIFFICULTIES OF AN INQUIRING INTELLECT SOLVED BY THE HEART OF PRACTICAL PIETY Two things are prominently developed in this chapter--Man’s power and...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 28:23 Only GOD UNDERSTANDS and KNOWS wisdom and how it is acquired (v. Job 28:23). God gives wisdom, and it is defined in re
_JOB’S DESCANT ON TRUE WISDOM_ The place occupied by this chapter one peculiar to itself. Its connection with the preceding or succeeding portions of the book by no means obvious. Appears scarcely to...
EXPOSITION JOB 28:1 The connection of this chapter with the preceding is somewhat obscure. Probably we are to regard Job as led to see, even while he is justifying God's ways with sinners (Job 27:8),...
Now, Job said, turning now to a different vein of thought, he said, "Now, there are places where gold is discovered and silver is discovered, and iron and brass, men dig the shafts, they follow the ve...
Isaiah 40:12; Psalms 135:7...
Winds — God manageth them all by weight, appointing to every wind that blows, its season, its proportion, its bounds, when, and where, and how much, and how long each shall blow. He only doth all thes...