Geneva Study Bible - Job 38:2
38:2 Who [is] this that {b} darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?(b) Which by seeking out the secret counsel of God by man’s reason, makes it more obscure, and shows his own folly. read more
38:2 Who [is] this that {b} darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?(b) Which by seeking out the secret counsel of God by man’s reason, makes it more obscure, and shows his own folly. read more
38:3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I {c} will demand of thee, and answer thou me.(c) Because he wished to dispute with God, Job 23:3, God reasons with him, to declare his rashness. read more
38:4 Where wast thou when I {d} laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.(d) Seeing he could not judge those things which were done so long before he was born, he was not able to comprehend all God’s works: much less the secret causes of his judgments. read more
38:7 When the morning stars {e} sang together, and all the {f} sons of God shouted for joy?(e) The stars and dumb creatures are said to praise God, because his power, wisdom and goodness is manifest and known in it.(f) Meaning the angels. read more
38:9 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a {g} swaddlingband for it,(g) As though the great sea was but as a little baby in the hands of God to turn to and fro. read more
38:11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be {h} stayed?(h) That is, God’s decree and commandment as in Job 38:10. read more
38:12 Hast thou commanded the {i} morning since thy days; [and] caused the dayspring to know his place;(i) That is, to rise, since you were born? read more
38:13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be {k} shaken out of it?(k) Who having in the night been given to wickedness, cannot abide the light, but hide themselves. read more
38:14 It is turned as clay [to] the seal; {l} and they stand as a garment.(l) The earth which seemed in the night to have no form by the rising of the sun, is as it were created anew, and all things in it clad with new beauty. read more
Geneva Study Bible - Job 38:1
38:1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the {a} whirlwind, and said,(a) That his words might have greater majesty, and that Job might know with whom he had to do. read more