Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Job 28:26
a decree for the rain This "decree" comprises all the laws that regulate the rain, appointing its measure and its seasons as early and latter rain.
a decree for the rain This "decree" comprises all the laws that regulate the rain, appointing its measure and its seasons as early and latter rain.
Verse Job 28:26. _WHEN HE MADE A DECREE FOR THE RAIN_] When he determined how that should be _generated_, viz., By the _heat_ of the sun _evaporation_ is produced: the particles of vapour being light...
WHEN HE MADE A DECREE FOR THE RAIN - A statute or law (חק _chôq_) by which the rain is regulated. It is not sent by chance or hap-hazard. It is under the operation of regular and settled laws. We can...
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...
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...
_WHEN HE MADE A DECREE FOR THE RAIN, AND A WAY FOR THE LIGHTNING OF THE THUNDER:_ The decree regulating at what time and place, and in what quantity, the rain should fall. A WAY - through the parte...
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...
A decree for the rain] i.e. for its regulation....
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!...
בַּ עֲשֹׂתֹ֣ו לַ † מָּטָ֣ר חֹ֑ק וְ֝...
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...
_Storms; or Hebrew, "for the lightning, which attends thunder." (Calmet)_...
(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...
WHEN HE MADE A DECREE FOR THE RAIN, AND A WAY FOR THE LIGHTNING OF THE THUNDER. Decreed within himself that he would give it; for rain is his gift alone, and which none of the vanities of the Gentiles...
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder: Ver. 26. _When he made a decree for the rain_] And hence it is that it raineth upon one city, and not upon another, Amo...
_When_ At the first creation, he settled that course and order which should afterward be continued; _he made a decree for the rain_ An appointment, and, as it were, a statute law, that it should fall...
When He made a decree for the rain, appointing to it when and how often it should fall, AND A WAY FOR THE LIGHTNING OF THE THUNDER, a path for the thunder-flash through the clouds, all these phenomena...
God Alone The Possessor of True Wisdom. Over against man's foolish quest for vain and unstable riches Job places the wisdom of God, unattainable by the outward seeking and searching of men....
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...
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...
WHEN HE MADE; which was either from eternity, or at the first creation, when he settled that course and order which should afterwards be continued. Or, _when he maketh_: but our translation seems best...
Job 28:26 made H6213 (H8800) law H2706 rain H4306 path H1870 thunderbolt H2385 H6963 he made -...
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...
Amos 4:7; Jeremiah 14:22; Job 36:26; Job 36:32; Job 37:3;...
When — At the first creation, when he settled that course and order which should he continued. A decree — An appointment and as it were a statute law, that it should fall upon the earth, in such times...