约伯记 38:15-16 CUNPSS

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 38:16-30

Jehovah to Job: the first answer-the examination: 4. Concerning the mysteries of creation. I. THE MYSTERIES OF CREATION ARE MANIFOLD IN THEIR VARIETY . Jehovah directs Job's attention to some examples of these hidden things, or secrets, of nature. 1 . The depths of the ocean. The sea, perhaps more than any other object in nature, the universal emblem of the mysterious, in respect of its immensity, inconstancy, potency, harmony, is specially invested with a veil of... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 38:15

And from the wicked their light is withholden - While the light thus spreads over the earth, rendering every object beautiful and blessing the righteous, light and prosperity are withheld from the wicked; see the notes at Job 24:17. Or, the meaning may be, that when the light shines upon the world, the wicked, accustomed to perform their deeds in the night, flee from it, and retreat to their dark hiding-places.And the high arm - Of the wicked. The arm is a symbol of strength. It is that by... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 38:16

Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? - The word here rendered “springs” (נבך nêbek), occurs nowhere else in the Scriptures. It is rendered by the Vulgate “profunda,” the deep parts; and by the Septuagint πηγὴν pēgēn - “fountains.” The reference seems to be to the deep fountains at the bottom of the sea, which were supposed to supply it with water. A large portion of the water of the ocean is indeed conveyed to it by rivers and streams that run on the surface of the earth. But it... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 38:15

Job 38:15. And, or, rather, but, from the wicked their light is withholden The earth, and the men and the things in it, have the comfort and benefit of the light, but so have not the wicked; they enjoy not its beautiful approach; either, because they shun it, and choose darkness rather than light, their deeds being evil; or, by the judgment of God, or of the magistrate, by whom they are shut out through imprisonment, or cut off by capital punishment, from the light of the living. And the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 38:16

Job 38:16. Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea Hebrew, נבכי ים , nibchee jam, Fletus, qui, ex maris profunditatibus currunt, ut lacrymæ ex occulis. Schindler: the springs which flow from the depths of the sea, as tears from men’s eyes: the several sources from which the waters of the sea proceed. Heath renders it, Hast thou been at the sources of the sea? and the next clause he translates, Hast thou traversed the depth of the abyss? Hast thou found out the utmost depth of... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 38:1-38

38:1-42:17GOD’S ANSWERControl of the natural world (38:1-38)Possibly an approaching storm was what prompted Elihu’s poetic praise of the God of nature (see 36:27-37:5). If so, that storm now broke, and through it the voice of God spoke to Job. Job had repeatedly challenged God to a contest. God now accepts (38:1-3).In his reply, God asks Job questions that he cannot answer, in order to show him how little he knows of the mind and activity of the Almighty. God begins his ironical questioning of... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 38:16

search = secret. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Job 38:16

REGARDING DEATH; SHEOL; AND THE SIZE OF THE EARTH"Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea?Or hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee?Or hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?Hast thou comprehended the earth in its breadth?Declare if thou knowest it all."Yes, indeed, today, men have measured the breadth of the earth, discovered its distance from the sun, weighed it, mapped it, explored most of it, etc.; but what about Job... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 38:16

Job 38:16. Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea?— Hast thou been at the sources of the sea? Hast thou traversed the depths of the abyss? Heath. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 38:15

15. their light—by which they work; namely, darkness, which is their day ( :-), is extinguished by daylight. high—Rather, "The arm uplifted" for murder or other crime is broken; it falls down suddenly, powerless, through their fear of light. read more