Job 38:2

Introduction By a pertinent question Jehovah singles Job out as the object of special address, and recognizes him as the leader in arraigning the divine counsel, and proceeds to summon him to prepare for the divine adjudication he has so often invoked, (Job 9:34-35; Job 13:18; Job 23:3; Job 31:35,) and more especially to meet the conditions of his own challenge, (Job 13:22:) THEN CALL THOU, AND I WILL ANSWER, Job 38:2-3.

2. Who is this that darkeneth, etc. A more pertinent and mortifying rebuke for the victor in debate could hardly be conceived.

Counsel In the sense of plan, of which the sufferings of Job were a part an idea which God proceeds more fully to illustrate by the additional design or plan which appears in the formation of the world. The quaint old divine, Thomas Brooks, citing this text, says: “Men of abstract conceits and wise speculations are but wise fools: like the lark that soareth on high, peering and peering, but at last falleth into the net of the fowler. Such persons are as censorious as curious, and do Christ and his Church but very little service in this world.”