Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Job 38:9
When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a (g) swaddlingband for it,
(g) As though the great sea was but as a little baby in the hands of God to turn to and fro.
When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a (g) swaddlingband for it,
(g) As though the great sea was but as a little baby in the hands of God to turn to and fro.
Verse Job 38:9. _WHEN I MAKE THE CLOUD THE GARMENT_] Alluding to the cloth in which the new-born infant is first received. The _cloud_ was the same to the newly raised _vapour_, as the above recipient...
WHEN I MADE THE CLOUD THE GARMENT THEREOF - Referring to the garment in which the new-born infant is wrapped up. This image is one of great beauty. It is that of the vast ocean just coming into being,...
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...
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...
Yahweh, speaking to Job out of the storm, challenges him to the contest, which he has so often demanded....
THICK DARKNESS. Hebrew. _'araphel._ See note on Job 3:6....
The sea....
A survey of the inanimate creation, the wonders of earth and sky the earth, Job 38:4; the heavens, Job 38:18...
Earth and sea....
_thick darkness_ Or, AND THE THICK CLOUD....
_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.
_WHEN I MADE THE CLOUD THE GARMENT THEREOF, AND THICK DARKNESS A SWADDLINGBAND FOR IT,_ No JFB commentary on this verse....
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...
God controls the sea. Job and his friends realised that the sea was a dangerous place. Strange animals lived in the water (chapter 41). The men spoke about terrible floods (Job 22:11). But a great ani...
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...
בְּ שׂוּמִ֣י עָנָ֣ן לְבֻשֹׁ֑ו וַ֝ עֲרָפֶ֗ל חֲ
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....
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...
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...
_Mist. So Moses says darkness was on the face of the abyss. Obscurity covered it, as swaddling bands do a child's body. (Calmet)_...
(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? ...
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...
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...
WHEN I MADE THE CLOUD THE GARMENT THEREOF,.... For this newborn babe, the sea; AND THICK DARKNESS A SWADDLING BAND FOR IT; which was the case of the sea when it burst out of the bowels of the earth a...
When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, Ver. 9. _When I made the cloud the garment thereof_] When I clothed this new born child with a cloud, _Elegans al...
_Who shut up the sea with doors?_ Who was it that set bounds to the vast and raging ocean, and shut it up, as it were, with doors within its proper place, that it might not overflow the earth? _When i...
When I made the cloud the garment thereof, wrapping the mighty ocean in swaddling-clothes, like a helpless infant, AND THICK DARKNESS, that of the heaviest cloud-covering, A SWADDLING-BAND FOR IT,...
THE MANIFESTATION OF GOD'S MAJESTY IN CREATION...
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...
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...
When I covered it with vapours and clouds which arise out of the sea. and by God's appointment hover above it, and cover it like a garment. THICK DARKNESS, i. e. black and dark clouds, called _darknes...
Job 38:9 made H7760 (H8800) clouds H6051 garment H3830 darkness H6205 band H2854 thick - Genesis 1:2
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...
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...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 38:4 Job had begun by lamenting his birth and the timing of his life (ch. Job 3:1). Using the same language of birth, the Lord now asks Job about the birth of the universe. Can Job exp...
_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...
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...
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...
Genesis 1:2...
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....
The cloud — When I covered it with vapours and clouds which rise out of the sea, and hover above it, and cover it like a garment. Darkness — Black and dark clouds. Swaddling band — Having compared the...