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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of the book of Job being the substance of thirty-five lectures / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1664
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-fifth, Th… › Chapter 37 › Verses 14-16
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Job had free liberty to know, and search after the knowledge of those things about which Elihu put his questions, the Meteors of the air, and the motions of those superior bodies; yet Elihu, knew he could say little in answer to these questions, when he asked him, Doest thou know? &c. And therefore his purpose was to humble Job, while he made him see and know his own ignorance. And did the most knowing man in the world know his own ignorance, that would (I am sure it might) make him very humble. We are apt to be very proud of a very small portion of knowledge, a little puffs us up; whereas the sense of our defects in knowledge may both make and keep us little in our own eyes: We should be thankful for that little which we know, and humble because we know so little.
Job had free liberty to know, and search after the knowledge of those things about which Elihu put his questions, the Meteors of the air, and the motions of those superiour bodyes; yet Elihu, knew he could say little in answer to these questions, when he asked him, Doest thou know? &c. And therefore his purpose was to humble Job, while he made him see and know his own ignorance. And did the most knowing man in the world know his own ignorance, that would (I am sure it might) make him very humble. We are apt to be very proud of a very small portion of knowledge, a little puffs us up; whereas the sence of our defects in knowledge may both make and keep us little in our own eyes: We should be thankfull for that little which we know, and humble because we know so little.
Elihu having by the Question now opened, convinced Job in in general that he knew but little of the works of God, proceeds in the close of this verse, and further forwards, to convince him further of his defectiveness in knowledge, by putting the same question about many other particulars: And the first particular about which he puts the same question, is the Light of the Cloud; Doest thou know when God disposed them, And caused the light of his Cloud to shine?