If it be asked, Why doth the Lord put these questions to Job, Where is the way where light dwelleth? Seeing every one may answer, light is in the Sun, light shines in and fills the Air, while ⟨p. 166⟩the Sun is up; and darkness filleth the air when the Sun is gone down, darkness being the privation or want of light; or darkness (according to the usual definition of it) being the shadow of the Earth coming between us and the Sun. When the opacous or thick body of the Earth interposeth between us and the Sun, darkness followeth. And if this be all, there seemeth not to be much difficulty in knowing where the light dwelleth, and where the place of darkness is; therefore surely that was not the sole intendment of God in putting these questions to Job. But when he saith, Where is the way where light dwelleth? &c. It is as if he had said, D•st thou understand the ordering and methodizing of light and darkness? Or how it cometh to pass, that one part of the World hath light while the other is covered with darkness, and how light returns to that other part? Hast thou made this temperament and vicissitude of light and darkness, or procured that the day should be long in the same country, at one season of the year, and short at another? Hast thou disposed the Sun to make short nights in Summer, and long in Winter? This the understanding of man is not well able to comprehend, much less his power to effect. Only the infinite wisdom of God hath put light and darkness into this method, and given them their certain seasons. And that this is the meaning of the Text, we may gather more clearly from the next verse; for the Lord having said, Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof? presently adds, Vers. 20. That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?
If it be asked, Why doth the Lord put these questions to Job, Where is the way where light dwelleth? Seeing every one may answer, light is in the Sun, light shines in and fills the Air, while ⟨p. 166⟩the Sun is up; and darkness filleth the air when the Sun is gone down, darkness being the privation or want of light; or darkness (according to the usual definition of it) being the shadow of the Earth coming between us and the Sun. When the opacous or thick body of the Earth interposeth between us and the Sun, darkness followeth. And if this be all, there seemeth not to be much difficulty in knowing where the light dwelleth, and where the place of darkness is; therefore surely that was not the sole intendment of God in putting these questions to Job. But when he saith, Where is the way where light dwelleth? &c. It is as if he had said, D•st thou understand the ordering and methodizing of l•ght and darkness? Or how it cometh to pass, that one part of the World hath light while the other is covered with darkness, and how light returns to that other part? Hast thou made this temperament and vicissitude of light and darkness, or procured that the day should be long in the same country, at one season of the year, and short at another? Hast thou disposed the Sun to make short nights in Summer, and long in Winter? This the understanding of man is not well able to comprehend, much less his power to effect. Onely the infinite wisdom of God hath put light and darkness into this method, and given them their certain seasons. And that this is the meaning of the Text, we may gather more clearly from the next verse; for the Lord having said, Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof? presently adds, Vers. 20. That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?
