Job 38:16

_HAST THOU ENTERED INTO THE SPRINGS OF THE SEA? OR HAST THOU WALKED IN THE SEARCH OF THE DEPTH?_ Springs - fountains beneath the sea (Psalms 95:4). SEARCH, х_ CHEEQER_ (H2714)] - rather, the inmost recesses: literally, that which is only found by searching the deep caverns of ocean....

12-24 The Lord questions Job, to convince him of his ignorance, and shame him for his folly in prescribing to God. If we thus try ourselves, we shall soon be brought to own that what we know is nothing in comparison with what we know not. By the tender mercy of our God, the Day-spring from on high has visited us, to give light to those that sit in darkness, whose hearts are turned to it as clay to the seal, 2 Corinthians 4:6. God's way in the government of the world is said to be in the sea; this means, that it is hid from us. Let us make sure that the gates of heaven shall be opened to us on the other side of death, and then we need not fear the opening of the gates of death. It is presumptuous for us, who perceive not the breadth of the earth, to dive into the depth of God's counsels. We should neither in the brightest noon count upon perpetual day, nor in the darkest midnight despair...

Verse Job 38:16. _HAST THOU ENTERED INTO THE SPRINGS OF THE SEA_?] Of these _springs, inlets_, or _outlets_ of the sea, we know just as much as Job. There was prevalent among philosophers an opinion, that through a _porous bottom_ fresh matter was constantly oozing by which the sea was supplied with new materials. But through such pores these materials might as well _ooze out_ as _ooze in_. _WALKED IN THE SEARCH OF THE DEPTH?_] Hast thou walked from the shallow beach through the great ocean's bed, till thou hast arrived at its profoundest depths? In other words, Dost thou know the depths of the sea? Job, we may presume, did not. No man since him has found them out. In multitudes of places they are unfathomed by any means hitherto used by man....

HAST THOU ENTERED INTO THE SPRINGS OF THE SEA? - The word here rendered “springs” (נבך _nêbek_), occurs nowhere else in the Scriptures. It is rendered by the Vulgate _“profunda,”_ the deep parts; and by the Septuagint πηγὴν _pēgēn_ - “fountains.” The reference seems to be to the deep fountains at the bottom of the sea, which were supposed to supply it with water. A large portion of the water of the ocean is indeed conveyed to it by rivers and streams that run on the surface of the earth. But it is known, also, that there are fountains at the bottom of the ocean, and in some places the amount of water that flows from them is so great, that its action is perceptible at the surface. One such fountain exists in the Atlantic ocean near the coast of Florida. OR HAST THOU WALKED IN THE SEARCH OF THE DEPTH? -...

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 into two parts by the interposition of a-short confession on Job's part (Job 40:3). Job 38:1 and Job 39:1 are closely connected, and form a single appeal—a sort of _argumentum ad verecundiam—_to_ _Job's profound ignorance of God's natural government, which incapacitates him from passing judgment upon what is far more incomprehensible and myste

HAST THOU ENTERED INTO THE SPRINGS OF THE SEA?.... The subterraneous passages through which the waters flow into the sea and supply it; or the springs and fountains that rise up at the bottom of it i; and some tell us of springs of sweet water that rise there, even though the water at the bottom of the sea is saltier than on the surface k: some render it "the drops of the sea" l; hast thou considered them and counted them? art thou able to do it? no: others the "perplexities" of it m, so the Targum, the word being used in this sense, Exodus 14:3; the thickets of it; some speak of woods and forests in it, Exodus 10:19; others "rocks" and shelves n, and others the "borders" of it o; and the sense then is, hast thou entered into and travelled through the main ocean, observed the forests in it, the shelving rocks an

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 voice of the Lord begins to speak. The Almighty, the Creator, the Lord of All comes now upon the scene. He too, like Elihu, had been the silent listener; He heard Job's complaint and wailing and the babblings of his friends. Elihu's wonderful utterance, inspired by the Lord, was ended. The thunderstorm is on, no doubt a literal storm, the dark clouds gather-- _ Then from the North there comes a golden light._ God appears in wondrous Majesty ...

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 (contrast Genesis 1:16), are thought of as animated beings: the sons of God are the angels. The morning stars and the angels then composed the choir at the laying of earth's foundation-stone; the stone-laying, therefore, took place in the morning. JOB 38:8 speaks of the taming of the sea: when it burst forth from the womb of chaos, God clothed the newborn child with the cloud and swaddled it with thick cloud. In Job 38:10 read as _mg._ and brake for it

SEARCH. secret....

A survey of the inanimate creation, the wonders of earth and sky the earth, Job 38:4; the heavens, Job 38:18...