Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadPaul Kretzmann Commentary - Job 38:28 - 38:38
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
God's Majesty in the Wonders above the Earth
v. 28. Hath the rain a father, as it drops down from the clouds of the sky? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew, which assemble from the vapor of the atmosphere above, and are therefore also brought into direct relation to God?
v. 29. Out of whose womb came the ice? A mother is assumed here because ice is associated with the earth. And the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
v. 30. The waters are hid as with a stone, drawing themselves together in a rigid mass as the frost takes hold of them, and the face of the deep is frozen, hanging together in a solid mass.
v. 31. Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, the band of that constellation of springtime, in the larger constellation of Taurus, or loose the bands of Orion, the cords which hold this constellation to its place in the heavens, causing the stars to fall to the ground?
v. 32. Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth, a very bright constellation, in his season? Or canst thou guide Arcturus, the Great Bear of the northern sky, with his sons?
v. 33. Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven, the laws which guide the stars in their courses? Canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth? Did Job possess the authority and power to regulate the influence of the heavens and their stars upon earthly destinies?
v. 34. Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, in commanding them to yield their moisture, that abundance of waters may cover thee?
v. 35. Canst thou send lightnings that they may go, at the command of Job, and say unto thee, Here we are, namely, at his disposal, ready to do his bidding?
v. 36. Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts, teaching the dark clouds how to perform their work in the world? Or who hath given understanding to the heart, to the creatures of the atmosphere, so that the clouds know their arrangement in the various circumstances?
v. 37. Who can number the clouds in wisdom, appointing to them their number and extent? Or who can stay the bottles of heaven, who tilts them, who pours out their liquid contents,
v. 38. when the dust groweth into hardness, becoming a firm mass as in the rain-water molds its particles together, and the clods cleave fast together, caking into a hard mass? In all these things God is supreme, all the forces of the atmosphere and of the sky being subject to Him, by whose laws they are guided. The insignificance of man stands out all the more strongly by contrast.