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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 12-15
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JOB, Chap. 38. Vers. 12, 13, 14, 15. 12. Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days? and caused the day-spring to know his place 13. That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it? 14. It is turned as clay to the seal, and they stand as a garment. 15. And from the wicked their light is with-holden, and the high arm shall be broken.
The Lord in dealing with Job, had already put sundry Questions to him about the earth, and about the sea, as hath been showed in the former part of this Chapter; here the Lords calls his thoughts up into the air, or bids him look to the heavens, and duly consider the light of the Sun. In this the Lord intends the same thing which he had done before, while he was questioning J•b about the Earth and the Sea, namely, to humble him, and b•ing him •o a full submission, by showing him his weakness, and utter insufficiency, as also to set forth his own wisdom, power, and greatness: Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days? &c. We may gather up the general sense of these four verses in o• this brief sum. As if the Lord had thus bespoken Job; If thou answerest, that the things I have already questioned thee about, were before thy time, and therefore must needs be done, without either thy counsel or assistance; then I ask thee farther, Hast thou ever hastened or retarded, hast thou quickened or stopped the rising of the Sun, at any time since thou wast born? or hast thou ever caused the morning light in any one of these Jew days, which thou hast seen, to spread it self far and near, even every where, to the uttermost parts of the earth; that so those evil doers and night-birds, who being children of darkness, cannot but hate the light, and love the works of darkness, might by its rising be at once discovered and affrighted? This seems to be the purpose and scope of God in these words. More particularly, ⟨p. 114⟩Vers. 12. Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days?