An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

The disjunctive particle Or, succeeds those disjunctives (ver. 5, 6.) Who did this? Or, Who did that? Or, Who a third thing, concerning the Earths formation? Here again, Or, Who shut up the Sea with doors? The Hebrew is only, Shut up the Sea with doors; the word who is repeated out of the fifth and sixth verses. The Lord by this query or question put to Job, would then have him, and now us know, that it was himself alone that did it: It was the Lord who bridled the Sea, and shut it up with doors; As if he said, Where wast thou, O Job, when I did this great thing? as thou gavest no assistance towards the laying of the foundations of Earth, and the fastening of the corner-stone thereof; so tell me what assistance didst thou give me in bringing forth, and settling the vast Sea: Or at least (if thou canst) give me an account h•w these things were done, and how they continue as they were done by an everlasting decree: who hath shut up the Sea with doors, was it I or thou, or any other Creature? Thus the Lord still brings Job upon his knees by humbling questions, knowing that he was not able to take any of that honour to himself. He poor man had no more to do in this great work, than he had in the former; and therefore he ought to submit to the works of God in providence, whatsoever he was pleased to do, seeing all the works of Creation were done by God alone, without his counsel or assistance. Who hath ¹Shut up the Sea with doors?

The disjunctive particle Or, succeeds those disjunctives (ver. 5, 6.) Who did this? Or, Who did that? Or, Who a third thing, concerning the Earths formation? Here again, Or, Who shut up the Sea with doors? The Hebrew is onely, Shut up the Sea with doors; the word who is repeated out of the fifth and sixth verses. The Lord by this query or question put to Job, would then have him, and now us know, that it was himself alone that did it: It was the Lord who bridled the Sea, and shut it up with doors; As if he said, Where wast thou, O Job, when I did this great thing? as thou gavest no assistance towards the laying of the foundations of Earth, and the fastening of the corner-stone thereof; so tell me what assistance didst thou give me in bringing forth, and setling the vast Sea: Or at least (if thou canst) give me an account h•w these things were done, and how they continue as they were done by an everlasting decree: who hath shut up the Sea with doors, was it I or thou, or any other Creature? Thus the Lord still brings Job upon his knees by humbling questions, knowing that he was not able to take any of that honour to himself. He poor man had no more to do in this great work, than he had in the former; and therefore he ought to submit to the works of God in providence, whatsoever he was pleased to do, seeing all the works of Creation were done by God alone, without his counsel or assistance. Who hath