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Verse Job 38:2. _WHO_ IS _THIS THAT DARKENETH COUNSEL_] As if he had
said, Who art _thou_ who pretendest to speak on the deep things of
God, and the administration of his justice and providence, which...
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WHO IS THIS - Referring doubtless to Job, for he is specified in the
previous verse. Some have understood it of Elihu (see Schultens), but
the connection evidently demands that it should be understood...
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V. THE LORD'S TESTIMONY TO JOB AND CONTROVERSY WITH HIM
CHAPTER 38:1-38
_ 1. The Lord speaks to Job (Job 38:1)_
2. The questions of the Lord (Job 38:4)
Job 38:1. The voice of man is hushed; the voi...
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Yahweh, speaking to Job out of the storm, challenges him to the
contest, which he has so often demanded....
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WHO IS THIS... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6.
DARKENETH. Hebrew. _hashak._ See note on Job 3:6....
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_who is this that darkeneth counsel_ lit. _who then is darkening
counsel_? The word _then_merely adds the emphasis of impatience or
astonishment to the question, _who_…? The expression
_counsel_sugges...
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WHO IS THIS THAT DARKENETH COUNSEL, &C.— Nothing can be conceived
more awful, than this appearance of Jehovah; nothing more sublime,
than the manner in which his speech is introduced. Thunders,
lightn...
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_THE SHATTERING OF SILENCE_
VI. THE PRESENCE OF GOD AND THE PENITENCE OF JOB (Job 38:1, Job 42:6)
A.
INTEGRITY, CERTAINTY, AND KNOWLEDGE (Job 38:1, Job 40:2)
1.
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_WHO IS THIS THAT DARKENETH COUNSEL BY WORDS WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE?_
This - Job.
COUNSEL - impugning my divine wisdom in the providential arrangements
of the universe. Such "words" (including those of...
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The question evidently refers to Job. 'God condemns Job for making
dark the divine plan of the world. He had spoken as though it was all
a tangled riddle. Really there is in it a beautiful luminous or...
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THE FIRST SPEECH OF THE ALMIGHTY (JOB 38:39)
The marvels of creation, which witness to the infinite wisdom, power,
and watchful care of the Creator, are presented to Job in such a way
as to force fro...
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Elihu had already explained this to Job (Job 34:35)....
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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 38
GOD BEGINS HIS SPEECH...
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WHO IS THIS? — The question may be answered by Job’s own words
(Job 14:1). It is a man as so described, a dying and enfeebled man,
like Job himself, not even a man in his best estate, but one so
perse...
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מִ֤י זֶ֨ה ׀ מַחְשִׁ֖יךְ עֵצָ֥ה בְ
מִלִּ֗ין בּ
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XXVII.
"MUSIC IN THE BOUNDS OF LAW"
Job 38:1
OVER the shadowed life of Job, and the world shadowed for him by his
own intellectual and moral gloom, a storm sweeps, and from the storm
issues a voice....
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DIVINE POWER AND HUMAN IGNORANCE
Job 38:1
When the storm had ceased and the thunder was hushed, a voice spoke
out of the golden splendor of the sky. See Job 37:21. Job had
challenged God to answer hi...
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Here begins the third movement in the great drama, that which deals
with the controversy between Jehovah and Job. Out of the midst of the
whirlwind the divine voice speaks. Its first word is a challen...
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Who [is] this that (b) darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
(b) Which by seeking out the secret counsel of God by man's reason,
makes it more obscure, and shows his own folly....
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Words. Many explain this as a condemnation (Calmet) of the last
speaker, (Du Hamel) who would otherwise pass without any reproach,
(Haydock) though he had spoken with less reserve than the rest.
(Calm...
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(2) Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? (3)
Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and
answer thou me.
Observe, it is to Job the LORD directeth his sp...
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_FINITE CREATURE V. INFINITE CREATOR_
‘Who is this?… Where wast thou?’
Job 38:2; Job 38:4
I. HUMILITY SHOULD BE ONE GRACE WHICH SPRINGS UP IN MY HEART AS I
THINK OF THE MAJESTY AND MIGHT OF MY GOD....
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God Speaks Job Repents
I. INTRODUCTION
A. Last week we covered a lot of territory!
1. We finished with Elihu's speeches to Job and found that, although
he was a lot more accurate in what he had to...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 38 THROUGH 42.
Jehovah then speaks, and addressing Job, carries on the subject. He
makes Job sensible of his nothingness. Job confesses himself to be
vile, an...
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WHO [IS] THIS,.... Meaning not Elihu the last speaker, as some think;
and there are some who suppose not only that these words are directed
to him, but all that is said in this and the following chapt...
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Who [is] this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
Ver. 2. _Who is this that darkeneth counsel_] Who is this that
talketh thus? saith God, stepping forth, as it were, from behind the
ha...
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_Who is this_, &c. What and where is he that presumes to talk at this
rate? _That darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?_ Words
proceeding from ignorance, mistake, and want of consideration. Wh...
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Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? In
permitting Job to suffer, the Lord was not acting in a capricious,
arbitrary way, but according to a plan which He considered good, wh...
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THE MANIFESTATION OF GOD'S MAJESTY IN CREATION...
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Marvellously, God Himself directly intervenes in this discussion so
early in the history of man. The storm that had been brewing as Elihu
spoke becomes a whirlwind, and God spoke to Job out of the whi...
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"WHO IS THIS THAT DARKENS COUNSEL BY WORDS WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE?" The
first thing that Job hears from God, is. rebuke. Job's comments and
questions had confused the issue rather than shedding any light....
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1-3 Job had silenced, but had not convinced his friends. Elihu had
silenced Job, but had not brought him to admit his guilt before God.
It pleased the Lord to interpose. The Lord, in this discourse,...
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WHO IS THIS? it is a question of admiration and reprehension, What and
where is he that presumeth to talk at this rate? this language becomes
not a creature, much less a professor of religion. The per...
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Job 38:2 darkens H2821 (H8688) counsel H6098 words H4405 knowledge
H1847
Job 12:3,...
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CONTENTS: God's challenge to Job.
CHARACTERS: God, Job.
CONCLUSION: Those who try to call God to account, will be called to
account. Seeking to establish one's own character and darkening the
counse...
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Job 38:1. _The whirlwind._ Clouds and flames are the chariots of the
Lord, in deigning to speak with men. When he spake to Elijah in Horeb,
it was with wind, and fire, and earthquake. Likewise in Psal...
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_Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said._
THE ADDRESS OF THE ALMIGHTY
This sublime discourse is represented as made from the midst of the
tempest or whirlwind which Elihu describes...
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_JEHOVAH’S ADDRESS TO JOB_
Elihu had now said all he intended. Possibly interrupted by the storm
which had been gathering during his speech. Out of the storm-cloud,
from which already issued thunders...
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CLOSE OF THE CONTROVERSY BY THE INTERFERENCE OF THE ALMIGHTY.
EXPOSITION
The discourse, by which the Almighty answers Job and rebukes his
"friends," occupies four chapters (ch. 38-41.). It is broken...
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Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, Who is this
that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy
loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou m...
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1 Timothy 1:7; Job 12:3; Job 23:4; Job 23:5; Job 24:25;...
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GOD SPEAKS TO JOB
Job 38:1 _to Job 42:1_
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
God's words to Job do not carry much by way of the explanation of
redemption. Job was a child of God, and well-instructed on those
lines....
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Counsel — God's counsel. For the great matter of the dispute between
Job and his friends, was concerning God's counsel and providence in
afflicting Job; which Job had endeavoured to obscure and misrep...