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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 19-21
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The Lord having posed Job in the former Context about the depth of the Sea, the darkness of Death, and the vastness of the Earth; here calleth him to an account about the light of the Sun, and the darkness of the Air, in these three verses. As if he had said, If thou knowest the breadth of the whole earth, about which I enquired last of thee; then tell me in what part of the earth doth the light dwell, and where is the place of darkness?
THe Lord having posed Job in the former Context about the depth of the Sea, the darkness of Death, and the vastness of the Earth; here calleth him to an account about the light of the Sun, and the darkness of the Air, in these three verses. As if he had said, If thou knowest the breadth of the whole earth, about which I enquired last of thee; then tell me in what part of the earth doth the light dwell, and where is the place of darkness?
Vers. 19. Where is the way where light dwelleth?
The Septuagint translate, In what land doth light dwell? 1Or where is the land of light? We say, Where is the way? The Hebrew word notes a trodden beaten way, or (as we speak) a high-way. Where is the way where light dwelleth? That is, whither light retireth, and doth, as it were, betake it self in the night, when it hath gone its journey, and is past thy Horizon. For every one knows where light dwells, while the Sun is up with us, and shines upon us: But what becomes of it, or whither it goes, when 'tis gone from us, that's a question, and here (say some) the question.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew]. In qua terra. Sept. [Greek or Hebrew] Ubi via in quae habitat, scil. post viae & itineris spatium emensum.