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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 puts this supposition again to his question; as before, Declare, if thou hast understanding, so here, if thou knowest. Some read these words ironically, thus, Declare, 1for th•u (doubtless) knowest, who hath laid the measures thereof. Thou art so wise and skilful a man, that surely thou canst declare this secret. Mr. Broughton hits the same sense; For thou wilt be skilful, that is, thought skilful, and taken among men for (no babe) a knowing man;2 and therefore canst give me a good account of the measures of the earth, both as to its circumference and diameter; that is, what the compass of it is, and what the depth through the middle of the earth is. Thus the words carry in them a cutting irony, the matter being so much beyond Jobs knowledge, of which the Lord saith to him, For thou knowest; which we render, If thou knowest? But the Hebrew particle ([Greek or Hebrew]) is rather and oftener (I suppose) used in a causal, than in a conditional signification.
The Lord puts this supposition again to his question; as before, Declare, if thou hast understanding, so here, if thou knowest. Some read these words ironically, thus, Declare, 1for th•u (doubtless) knowest, who hath laid the measures thereof. Thou art so wise and skilful a man, that surely thou canst declare this secret. Mr. Broughton hits the same sense; For thou wilt be skilful, that is, thought skilful, and taken among men for (no babe) a knowing man;2 and therefore canst give me a good account of the measures of the earth, both as to its circumference and diameter; that is, what the compass of it is, and what the depth through the middle of the earth is. Thus the words carry in them a cutting irony, the matter being so much beyond Jobs knowledge, of which the Lord saith to him, For thou knowest; which we render, If thou knowest? But the Hebrew particle (〈non-Latin alphabet〉) is rather and oftner (I suppose) used in a causal, than in a conditional signification.