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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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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.
The last thing about which the Lord put the question, was the Light, whereby hidden and secret things are discovered; here the question is about things that lie out of the light, about hidden and secret things; all which yet are more plain and obvious to, more open and naked before the eye of God, with whom we have to do, than the Noon-day light to us.