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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 38 › Verse 19-21
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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.
Knowest thou it?
That is, what I last put to thee. If thou knowest it, how camest thou by thy knowledge? Knowest thou it, Because thou wast then born?
The Tygurine Translation renders the words thus;1 Dost thou know the time when thou wast born? As if the Lord had argued ⟨p. 177⟩