Job 38:7

7. Morning stars According to some, literal stars, whose song is one of metaphor. They are called morning stars because of their association with the dawn of the world. A beautiful figure it would be, that of the rejoicing of the brightest worlds over the birth of a sister star: (see note Job 3:6) but the less fanciful view, is that which regards the morning stars as a higher order of angels “creatures of such glory that they surpass all other creatures of God, in the same way that the brightness of the morning star ( Lucifer, Isaiah 14:12) eclipses all the other stars.” Zockler. Stars, in the Scriptures, are the standing figure for angels. Christ calls himself “the bright and morning star,” since he ushers in the everlasting day. Revelation 22:16. The promise of Christ to give “the morning star” to “him that overcometh,” (Revelation 2:28.) leads Dr. Candlish to the speculation that “it may seem probable that some joint-fellowship of angels and men in Christ’s sonship is what, by thus connecting together, in so close a verbal relation, the widely-separated books of Job and the Revelation, the Spirit intends to teach. For thus we find the title ‘ morning star,’ which is associated with that of ‘ son of God’ in the case of the angels, applied to the Son of God himself, and in him, also, to the overcoming Christian.… In particular, as used in these texts, taken together, it surely points to the identification of unfallen angels and redeemed men with the second person in the Godhead.” See his Cunningham Lectures, pp. 125, 155, 156. Sang together The ancients laid a cornerstone with music and songs. Ezra 3:10; Zechariah 4:7. Bishop Wordsworth alludes to the songs of the angels “at the laying of the foundation-stone of the temple of the new creation, in the nativity of Christ.”

Sons of God Sons of Elohim. See note on Job 1:6. Kurtz ( Bible and Astronomy, see. 18) enlarges upon the term Elohim: “Let it be borne in mind that angels are always called the sons of God, but not of Jehovah. The term Elohim designates the Divine Being as the fulness and source of life, of power, of blessedness, of holiness, of glory and majesty. The term Jehovah describes him as merciful and gracious.”… “The sons of Elohim are, therefore, they in whom shine forth his power and glory. The sons of Jehovah are those who receive, and are the vehicles of his redeeming mercy. In this sense Israel is called the firstborn son of Jehovah. Exodus 4:22. ” See note, Job 1:21.

Whether the interpretation given to “the morning stars,” spoken of above, be that they belong to the inanimate or animate creation, we are justified in the remark that their creation preceded that of this world. The present allusion to “sons of God” makes it clear that there were conscious and joyous beings of a high grade in existence before the founding of our world; that is, before the creative work described in Genesis 1:0. This fact leads to the wider inference, that the whole of the universe was not created at once.