Chapter 38

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Job 37:1-2, Job 37:9, Job 37:14; Exod 19:16-19; Deut 4:11-12, Deut 5:22-24; 1Kgs 19:11; 2Kgs 2:1, 2Kgs 2:11; Ezek 1:4; Nah 1:3


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Job 12:3, Job 23:4-5, Job 24:25, Job 26:3, Job 27:11, Job 34:35, Job 35:16, Job 42:3; 1Tim 1:7


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Gird Job 40:7; Exod 12:11; 1Kgs 18:46; Jer 1:17; 1Pet 1:13

for Job 13:15, Job 13:22, Job 23:3-7, Job 31:35-37

answer thou me Heb. make me know


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Where Prov 8:22, Prov 8:29-30, Prov 30:4

I Gen 1:1; Ps 102:25, Ps 104:5; Heb 1:2, Heb 1:10

hast Heb. knowest


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laid Job 11:9, Job 28:25; Prov 8:27; Isa 40:12, Isa 40:22

who hath stretched Ps 19:4, Ps 78:55; Isa 34:11; Zech 2:1-2; 2Cor 10:16


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Whereupon Job 26:7; 1Sam 2:8; Ps 24:2, Ps 93:1, Ps 104:5; Zech 12:1; 2Pet 3:5

foundations Heb. sockets, Exod 26:18-25

fastened Heb. made to sink, or, Ps 118:22, Ps 144:12; Isa 28:16; Eph 2:20-21


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the morning Rev 2:28, Rev 22:16

the sons Job 1:6, Job 2:1; Ps 104:4; Rev 5:11

shouted Ezra 3:11-12; Zech 4:7


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who Job 38:10; Gen 1:9; Ps 33:7, Ps 104:9; Prov 8:29; Jer 5:22

out Job 38:29


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thick Gen 1:2


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brake up for it my decreed place or, established my decree upon it, Job 26:10; Gen 1:9-10, Gen 9:15; Ps 104:9; Jer 5:22


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Hitherto Thus far shall thy flux and reflux extend. The tides are marvellously limited and regulated, not only by the lunar and solar attraction, but by the quantum of time required to remove any part of the earth's surface, by its rotation round its axis, from under the immediate attractive influence of the sun and moon. Hence the attraction of the sun and moon, and the gravitation of the sea to its own centre, which prevent too great a flux on the one hand, and too great reflux on the other, are some of those bars and doors by which its proud waves are stayed, and prevented from coming farther. Ps 65:6-7, Ps 93:3-4; Prov 8:29; Mark 4:39-41

but Job 1:22, Job 2:6; Ps 76:10, Ps 89:9; Isa 27:8; Luke 8:32-33; Rev 20:2-3, Rev 20:7-8

thy proud waves Heb. the pride of thy waves


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commanded Gen 1:5; Ps 74:16, Ps 136:7-8, Ps 148:3-5

since Job 38:4, Job 38:21, Job 8:9, Job 15:7

the dayspring Luke 1:78; 2Pet 1:19


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take Ps 19:4-6, Ps 139:9-12

ends Heb. wings, Job 37:3 *marg.

the wicked Job 24:13-17; Exod 14:27; Ps 104:21-22, Ps 104:35


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as a Ps 104:2, Ps 104:6


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from Job 5:14, Job 18:5, Job 18:18; Exod 10:21-23; 2Kgs 6:18; Prov 4:19; Isa 8:21-22; Jer 13:16; Acts 13:10-11

the high Ps 10:15, Ps 37:17; Ezek 30:22


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the springs Ps 77:19; Prov 8:24; Jer 51:36

walked Job 26:5-6


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the gates Ps 9:13, Ps 107:18, Ps 116:3

the shadow Job 3:5, Job 12:22; Ps 23:4, Ps 107:10, Ps 107:14; Amos 5:8; Matt 4:16


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Ps 74:17, Ps 89:11-12; Isa 40:28; Jer 31:37; Rev 20:9


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the way Job 38:12-13; Gen 1:3-4, Gen 1:14-18; Deut 4:19; Isa 45:7; John 1:9, John 8:12

darkness Ps 18:11, Ps 104:20, Ps 105:28; Jer 13:16; Ezek 32:8; Amos 4:13; Matt 27:45


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it to or, it at

the bound Gen 10:19, Gen 23:17


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Job 38:4, Job 38:12, Job 15:7


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Job 6:16, Job 37:6; Ps 33:7, Ps 135:7


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Job 36:31, Job 36:13; Exod 9:18, Exod 9:24; Josh 10:11; Isa 30:30; Ezek 13:11-13; Matt 7:27; Rev 16:21


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Job 38:12-13; Jonah 4:8; Matt 24:27


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Job 28:26, Job 36:27-28, Job 37:3-6; Ps 29:3-10


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To cause It is well known that rain falls copiously in thunder storms. The flash is first seen, the clap is next heard, and last the rain descends; though in fact they all take place at the same time. The lightning traverses all space in no perceivable succession of time. Sound is propagated at the rate of 1,142 feet in a second. Rain travels still more slowly, and will be seen sooner or later according to the weight of the drops, and the distance of the cloud. Now as water is composed of two elastic airs or gases, called oxygen and hydrogen, in the proportion of 88+ of the former and 11, 3/4 of the latter in 100 parts, the electric spark, or matter of lightning, passing through the atmosphere, ignites and decomposes those gases, which explode; and the water falls down in the form of rain. This explosion, as well as the rushing in of the circumambient air to restore the equilibrium, will account for the clap and peal; and thus by the lightning of thunder God causes it to rain on the earth.

on the wilderness Ps 104:10-14, Ps 107:35, Ps 147:8-9; Isa 35:1-2, Isa 41:18-19, Isa 43:19-20; Jer 14:22; Heb 6:7-8


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Hath the Job 38:8, Job 5:9-10; 1Sam 12:17-18; Ps 65:9-10; Jer 5:24, Jer 10:13, Jer 14:22; Joel 2:23; Amos 4:7; Matt 5:45

dew Job 29:19; Gen 27:28, Gen 27:39; Deut 33:13, Deut 33:28; 2Sam 1:21; 1Kgs 17:1; Prov 3:20; Hos 14:5


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Job 38:8, Job 6:16, Job 37:10; Ps 147:16-17


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the face Job 37:10

frozen Heb. taken


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Pleiades or, the seven stars, Heb. Cimah, Job 9:9 *marg. Amos 5:8

Orion or, Cesil


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Mazzaroth or, the twelve signs, Probably the same as mazzaloth. 2Kgs 23:5

guide Arcturus Heb. guide them, Job 9:9


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the ordinances Gen 1:16, Gen 8:22; Ps 119:90-91; Jer 31:35-36, Jer 33:25

canst Job 38:12-13


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1Sam 12:18; Amos 5:8; Zech 10:1; Jas 5:18


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Canst Exod 9:23-25, Exod 9:29; Lev 10:2; Num 11:1, Num 16:35; 2Kgs 1:10, 2Kgs 1:14; Rev 11:5-6

Here we are Heb. Behold us, 1Sam 22:12; Isa 6:8 *marg. Isa 65:1


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Who hath put Job 32:8; Ps 51:6; Prov 2:6; Eccl 2:26; Jas 1:5, Jas 1:17

who hath given Exod 31:3, Exod 36:1-2; Isa 28:26


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number Gen 15:5; Ps 147:4

or who Gen 8:1, Gen 9:15

stay Heb. cause to lie down


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groweth into hardness or, is turned into mire, Heb. is poured


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Wilt Job 4:10-11; Ps 34:10, Ps 104:21, Ps 145:15-16

appetite Heb. life


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Gen 49:9; Num 23:24, Num 24:9


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Ps 104:27-28, Ps 147:9; Matt 6:26; Luke 12:24


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