God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.God — God alone.The way — The methods which he takes in the management of all affairs, together with its grounds and ends in them.The place — Where it dwells, which is only in his own mind. read more
For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;For — He, and he only knows it, because his providence, is infinite and universal, reaching to all places, and times, past, present, and to come; whereas the most knowing men have narrow understandings, and the wisdom, and justice, and beauty of God's works are not fully seen 'till all the parts of them be laid together. read more
To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.Winds — God manageth them all by weight, appointing to every wind that blows, its season, its proportion, its bounds, when, and where, and how much, and how long each shall blow. He only doth all these things, and he only knows why he doth them. He instanceth in some few of God's works, and those which seem to be most trivial, and uncertain, that thereby he might more strongly imply that God doth the same in other things... read more
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:When — At the first creation, when he settled that course and order which should he continued.A decree — An appointment and as it were a statute law, that it should fall upon the earth, in such times, and places, and proportions. read more
Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.It — Wisdom, which is the subject of the present discourse. This God saw within himself; he looked upon it in his own mind, as the rule by which he would proceed in the creation and government of all things.Declare — Or reveal it.Prepared — He had it in readiness for doing all his works, as if he had been for a long time preparing materials for them. So it is a speech of God after the manner of men.Searched — Not... read more
And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.Man — Unto Adam in the day in which he was created. And in him, to all his posterity.Said — God spake it, at first to the mind of man, in which he wrote this with his own finger, and afterwards by the holy patriarchs, and prophets, and other teachers, whom he sent into the world to teach men true wisdom.Behold — Which expression denotes the great importance of this doctrine, and withal... read more
Section third PANEGYRIC OF WISDOM, chap. 28. First strophe Man has wonderful power and skill for surmounting the obstacles of nature and extracting from the gloomiest depths of earth her most precious treasures, Job 28:1-11. 1. For beauty of thought and richness of imagery, Job’s eulogium of wisdom is worthy to be compared with Paul’s panegyric of charity. (1 Corinthians 13:0.) Delitzsch calls it “a song of triumph without vain-glory.” Job is unconsciously carving for himself a monolith... read more
2. Iron… earth Iron and brass are both alluded to in the final address of Moses as abounding in the Promised Land. Deuteronomy 8:9. The Jews do not seem to have worked these mines to any great extent, though it is now known that they were worked by the early Canaanitish races. (ROUGEMONT, L’Age du Bronze, 188.) Iron was certainly found in Lebanon, and Josephus speaks of an “iron mountain that runs in length as far as Moab.” Wars, Job 4:8 ; Job 4:2. Pliny (xxxiv, 14) says, mines of iron... read more
3. He The miner. An end to darkness The torch of the miner dispels the darkness of the mine, and thus “he setteth an end to darkness.” and searcheth out perfectly, (literally, to every extremity, to the utmost,) the stones of darkness (metals) and the shadow of death. Ancient commentators thought that Job meant by this phrase to designate the centre of the earth. Schultens gives sixteen theories on this subject. Pliny, whose description of mining (about A.D. 77) remarkably illustrates... read more
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Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 28:22
Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.Death — The grave, the place of the dead, to 'which these things are here ascribed, as they are to the depths, and to the sea, by a common figure. Though they cannot give an account of it themselves yet there is a world, on which these dark regions border, where we shall see it clearly. Have patience, says death: I will fetch thee shortly to a place where even this wisdom shall be found. When the veil of flesh is rent, and... read more