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Scott's Reference Library
Job 38:1 through Job 38:11 (NIV)
1Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm. He said:
2 “Who is this that darkens my counsel
with words without knowledge?
3 Brace yourself like a man;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.
4 “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.
5 Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
6 On what were its footings set,
or who laid its cornerstone—
7 while the morning stars sang together
and all the angels shouted for joy?
8 “Who shut up the sea behind doors
when it burst forth from the womb,
9 when I made the clouds its garment
and wrapped it in thick darkness,
10 when I fixed limits for it
and set its doors and bars in place,
11 when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther;
here is where your proud waves halt’?
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 1-3
Job had silenced, but had not convinced his friends. Elihu had silenced Job, but
had not brought him to admit his guilt before God. It pleased the Lord to
interpose. The Lord, in this discourse, humbles Job, and brings him to repent of
his passionate expressions concerning God’s providential dealings with him; and
this he does, by calling upon Job to compare God’s being from everlasting to
everlasting, with his own time; God’s knowledge of all things, with his own
ignorance; and God’s almighty power, with his own weakness. Our darkening the
counsels of God’s wisdom with our folly, is a great provocation to God. Humble
faith and sincere obedience see farthest and best into the will of the Lord.
VERSES 4-11
For the humbling of Job, God here shows him his ignorance, even concerning the
earth and the sea. As we cannot find fault with God’s work, so we need not fear
concerning it. The works of his providence, as well as the work of creation,
never can be broken; and the work of redemption is no less firm, of which Christ
himself is both the Foundation and the Corner-stone. The church stands as firm
as the earth.