Job 38:1-21 RVR1960

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 38:5

Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?Measures — Who hath prescribed how long and broad and deep it should be.Line — the measuring line to regulate all its dimensions. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 38:6

Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;Foundations — This strong and durable building hath no foundations but God's power, which hath marvelously established it upon itself.Cornerstone — By which the several walls are joined and fastened together, and in which, next to the foundations, the stability of a building consists. The sense is, who was it that built this goodly fabrick, and established it so firmly that it cannot be moved. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 38:7

When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?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, and because they were made partakers of his Divine and glorious image.Shouted — Rejoiced in and blessed God for his works, whereby he intimates, that they neither did advise or any way assist him, nor dislike or censure any... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 38:8

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?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? Break forth - From the womb or bowels of the earth, within which the waters were for the most part contained, and out of which they were by God's command brought forth into the channel which God had appointed for them. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 38:9

When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,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 sea to a new-born infant, he continues the metaphor, and makes the clouds as swaddling-bands, to keep it within its bounds: though indeed neither clouds, nor air, nor sands, nor shores, can bound the sea, but God... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 38:10

And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,Break up — Made those hollow places in the earth, which might serve for a cradle to receive and hold this great and goodly infant when it came out of the womb.And set — Fixed its bounds as strongly as if they were fortified with bars and doors. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 38:12

Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;Morning — Didst thou create the sun, and appoint the order and succession of day and night.Since — Since thou wast born: this work was done long before thou wast born.To know — To observe the punctual time when, and the point of the heavens where it should arise; which varies every day. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 38:13

That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?That — That this morning light should in a moment spread itself, from one end of the hemisphere to the other.Shaken — From the face of the earth. And this effect the morning-light hath upon the wicked, because it discovers them, whereas darkness hides them; and because it brings them to condign punishment, the morning being the usual time for executing judgment. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 38:14

It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.It — The earth.Turned — Is changed in its appearance.By the seal — The seal makes a beautiful impression upon the clay, which in itself hath no form, or comeliness. So the earth, which in the darkness of night lies like a confused heap without either form or beauty, when the light arises and shines upon it, appears in excellent order and glory.They — The men and things of the earth, whether natural, as living creatures, herbs and... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 38:15

And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.Withheld — That light which enjoyed by others is withholden from them, either by their own choice, because they chuse darkness rather than light; or by the judgment of God, or the magistrate, by whom they are cut off from the light of the living.Arms — Their great strength which they used to the oppression of others. read more

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 38:5

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 38:6

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 38:7

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 38:8

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 38:9

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 38:10

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 38:12

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 38:13

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 38:14

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 38:15

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