Job 38:12

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 38:12

the morning. See the Alternation below, verses: Job 38:12-14 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Job 38:12

WONDERS OF MORNING; THE DAYSPRING; AND ENDS OF THE EARTH"Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days began,And caused the dayspring to know its place;That it might take hold of the ends of the earth,And the wicked be shaken out of it?It is changed as clay under the seal;And all things stand forth as a garment:And from the wicked their light is withholden,And the high arm is broken.""That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it" (Job 38:13). These words... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 38:12

12-15. Passing from creation to phenomena in the existing inanimate world. Hast thou—as God daily does. commanded the morning—to rise. since thy days—since thou hast come into being. his place—It varies in its place of rising from day to day, and yet it has its place each day according to fixed laws. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 38:4-30

God’s questions of Job 38:4-39:30As Job’s friends had done, God began to break Job down blow by verbal blow. Finally all his pride was gone. However, where Job’s friends had failed, God succeeded."The function of the questions needs to be properly understood. As a rhetorical device, a question can be another way of making a pronouncement, much favoured by orators. For Job, the questions in the Lord’s speeches are not such roundabout statements of fact; they are invitations, suggestions about... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Job 38:1-34

The Speeches of the AlmightyWhen the human debate was over, and Job had proudly asserted his readiness to confront God, conscious of his innocence (Job 31:35-37), there was nothing left, if the contest was to be decided, except a direct intervention of God. This Job had himself again and again demanded. He had challenged God to meet him and justify the treatment He accorded to him. He complains bitterly that God evades him, and lets him suffer, though He knows that he is innocent. Now at last... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Job 38:1-41

The First Speech of the Almighty (Job 38, 39)The marvels of creation, which witness to the infinite wisdom, power, and watchful care of the Creator, are presented to Job in such a way as to force from him a confession of ignorance and weakness, and of presumption in venturing to contend with God.1-38. The wonders of earth and heaven. What does Job know of their nature and origin and ordering?1. Whirlwind] rather, ’storm.’ Theophanies, or manifestations of God to man, are usually represented in... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 38:12

(12) And caused the dayspring to know his place.—Changing, as it does, from day to day with the changing seasons. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Job 38:1-41

The First Chapter of Genesis Job 38:4 The real object of the narrative in Genesis is not to teach scientific truth, but to teach religious truth. I. One object of the narrative will be evident at once: it is to show, in opposition to the crude conceptions current in many parts of the ancient world, that the world is not self-originated; that it was called into existence, and brought gradually into its present state, at the will of a Spiritual Being, prior to it, independent of it, deliberately... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Job 38:1-41

XXVIII.THE RECONCILIATIONJob 38:1 - Job 42:6THE main argument of the address ascribed to the Almighty is contained in chapters 38 and 39 and in the opening verses of chapter 42. Job makes submission and owns his fault in doubting the faithfulness of Divine providence. The intervening passage containing descriptions of the great animals of the Nile is scarcely in the same high strain of poetic art or on the same high level of cogent reasoning. It seems rather of a hyperbolical kind, suggesting... read more

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