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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second, being the five last, chapters of the book of Job being the substance of fifty-two lectures or meditations / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666
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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 38 › Verse 4-6
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The Lord begins with the Work of Creation, thereby humbling Job to this Confession, that he had nothing at all to do with it.
Vers. 4. Where wast thou, when I laid the foundations of the Earth?
1We have the Creation asserted in these words, and God is pleased to speak of it metaphorically, by a comparison drawn from Architecture, or the model of a Building: Where wast thou, when I laid the foundations of the Earth?
- 1Quando deus interrogat ubi eras? revocat in mentem Jobo quis sit, & ex quo, & quam brevis aevi. Codur.
Eliphaz put a question of a near import with this (Chap. 15.7.) Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills? Here the Lord speaks the same language, Where wast thou, when I laid the foundations of the Earth? Wast thou made before the World?