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Verse Job 38:7. _WHEN THE MORNING STARS SANG TOGETHER_] This must
refer to some intelligent beings who existed before the creation of
the visible heavens and earth: and it is supposed that this and t...
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WHEN THE MORNING-STARS - There can be little doubt that angelic beings
are intended here, though some have thought that the stars literally
are referred to, and that they seemed to unite in a chorus o...
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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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THE WONDERS OF THE INANIMATE CREATION. Where was Job when the earth
was made? The work of creation is described as the building of a
house. In Job 38:7 the stars, which are older than the world (contr...
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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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STARS SANG. Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia._ App-6. See App-12.
SONS OF GOD. angels. See note on Genesis 6:2, and the eight
occurrences of the expression in O.T. See also App-23 and App-25....
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A survey of the inanimate creation, the wonders of earth and sky the
earth, Job 38:4; the heavens, Job 38:18...
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Earth and sea....
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WHEN THE MORNING STARS SING TOGETHER— It is observable from many
passages in the prophets, that the angels are compared to, or spoken
of, under the metaphor of _stars:_ See particularly Isaiah 14:12....
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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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_WHEN THE MORNING STARS SANG TOGETHER, AND ALL THE SONS OF GOD SHOUTED
FOR JOY?_ MORNING STARS - especially beautiful. The creation-morn is
appropriately associated with these, it being the commenceme...
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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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SONS OF GOD] the angels.
8-11. The sea....
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God created the world. This was a wonderful event (Proverbs 8:22-31).
This event showed God’s wisdom and God’s skill. God’s servants
in heaven were so happy to see God’s work. Job did not even see thi...
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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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THE MORNING STARS. — The context seems to suggest that by the stars
are meant the angels entrusted with their guardianship, from whence
Milton has borrowed his conceptions. The magnificent sublimity o...
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בְּ רָן ־יַ֭חַד כֹּ֣וכְבֵי בֹ֑קֶר וַ֝
יָּרִ֗י
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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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When the morning stars (e) sang together, and all the (f) sons of God
shouted for joy?
(e) The stars and dumb creatures are said to praise God, because his
power, wisdom and goodness is manifest and...
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_Sons. Septuagint, "all my angels." Hence it appears that the angels
were among the first of God's works, formed probably at the same time
with the heavens, (Calmet) or light, Genesis i. 3. (Haydock)...
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(4) В¶ Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?
declare, if thou hast understanding. (5) Who hath laid the measures
thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? ...
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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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WHEN THE MORNING STARS SANG TOGETHER,.... Either all the stars in a
literal sense; for though, strictly speaking, there is but one morning
star, yet all may be called so, because early created in the...
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When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted
for joy?
Ver. 7. _When the morning stars sang together_] There is but one
morning star properly so called, viz. Phosphorus, Lucif...
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_Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened?_ This strong and
durable building hath no foundations but God's power, which hath
marvellously established it upon itself. _Who laid the corner-stone?_...
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when the morning stars, all the heavenly host, creatures of the
highest brilliance, SANG TOGETHER AND ALL THE SONS OF GOD SHOUTED FOR
JOY, in celebrating the festal occasion? Light and beauty and song...
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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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The morning stars could be Venus and Mercury. "The star's singing is.
poetic personification. In Psalms 148:2-3 angels and stars are
together commanded to praise the Lord" _(p. 767)._ This reveals tha...
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4-11 For the humbling of Job, God here shows him his ignorance, even
concerning the earth and the sea. As we cannot find fault with God's
work, so we need not fear concerning it. The works of his prov...
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THE MORNING STARS; either,
1. The stars properly so called, who are said to sing and praise God,
objectively, because they give men ample occasion to do it in regard
of their glorious light and stupe...
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Job 38:7 morning H1242 stars H3556 sang H7442 (H8800) together H3162
sons H1121 God H430 shouted H7321 ...
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SONS OF GOD
(_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...
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Job 38:6
The earth might have been regarded by the angels in reference either
to its future inhabitants, or to God, or to the evil which had already
found its way into the universe.
I. In reference...
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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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_When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted
for Joy?_
THE SONG ETERNAL
The mere creation of matter would be wonderful; but, to think that God
put in that matter all that mi...
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_Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened?_
THE LAYING OF THE EARTH’S FOUNDATION STONE
Our text brings before us a period long antecedent to the creation of
man, when the first step was taken t...
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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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Ezra 3:11; Ezra 3:12; Job 1:6; Job 2:1; Psalms 104:4;...
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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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Stars — The angels, who may well be called morning — stars,
because of their excellent lustre and glory. Sons of God — The
angels called the sons of God, because they had their whole being from
him, a...