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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 16-18
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In this Context the Lord returns to his former way of interrogating Job, and having questioned him about the birth or production of the Sea, the bands and bounds of the Sea, at the 8th 9th 10th and 11th verses, he questions him here,
First, About the depth of, the unsearchable depth of the Sea (vers. 16, 17.)
Secondly, About the vast breadth of the Earth (vers. 18.)
Thereby to convince Job, that he, not being able to reach the depth of those mighty waters, nor to comprehend the breadth of the earth, was much less able to comprehend the depth of those counsels, or the breadth of those ways of providence in which himself had been walking towards him. That's the general scope and sum of these three verses, as also of all that follow, as hath been showed formerly.
Thereby to convince Job, that he, not being able to reach the depth of those mighty waters, nor to comprehend the breadth of the earth, was much less able to comprehend the depth of those counsels, or the breadth of those ways of providence in which himself had been walking towards him. That's the general scope and sum of these three verses, as also of all that follow, as hath been shewed formerly.