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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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As if the Lord had said, I have put the question to thee; come now answer me, declare what thou knowest, let me know what her thou knowest it all. God provokes or challengeth Job to say his utmost. We may refer these last words either strictly to the immediate ⟨p. 159⟩question only, or generally to all the questions before; yet I conceive they are rather to be restrained to the last question concerning the breadth of the earth, because they run in the singular number, Declare if thou knowest it all, that is, if thou knowest all of the earth. There were many pa•ts of the earth, which Job knew not at all; therefore he could not know it all. We at this day after all the improvements which have been made by Navigation (little in use in Jobs days) for the discovery of the earth, are yet forced to write upon some places (as we may see in our best Maps of the World) Terra incognita, this part of the earth is unknown. If we now do not, surely Job then did not know it all.
As if the Lord had said, I have put the question to thee; come now answer me, declare what thou knowest, let me know what her thou knowest it all. God provokes or challengeth Job to say his utmost. We may refer these last words either strictly to the immediate ⟨p. 159⟩question only, or generally to all the questions before; yet I conceive they are rather to be restrained to the last question concerning the breadth of the earth, because they run in the singular number, Declare if thou knowest it all, that is, if thou knowest all of the earth. There were many pa•ts of the earth, which Job knew not at all; therefore he could not know it all. We at this day after all the improvements which have been made by Navigation (little in use in Jobs days) for the discove•y of the earth, are yet forced to write upon some places (as we may see in our best Maps of the World) Terra incognita, this part of the earth is unknown. If we now do not, surely Job then did not know it all.