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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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Thus much of the enquiry made about the way and path of light and darkness, which as they are literally to be understood of natural light and darkness: so by them God led Job, and in him us, to consider his disposure of all sorts of light and darkness.
Now, That Job might be convinced of his own ignorance in, and insufficiency for an answer to these questions, God calls him to consider the late beginning and shortness of his life, knowledge being gathered up by experience, and length of days affording both time and opportunity for the gathering up of experiences. Job was but of yesterday, in comparison of the day wherein the interchanges of light and darkness were appointed; and therefore (should it be supposed that days could teach him how these things came to pass, yet) he could not but be much unprepared for a ready and satisfying answer to these questions.
Vers. 21. Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? Or because the number of thy days is great?
The question still proceeds about the natural light and darkness.