Job 38:1-11

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 38:1-2

1. God’s first speech 38:1-40:2God’s first speech "transcends all other descriptions of the wonders of creation or the greatness of the Creator, which are to be found either in the Bible or elsewhere." [Note: Samuel R. Driver, Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament, p. 427.] read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 38:1-3

God’s introductory challenge to Job 38:1-3God sometimes made His self-revelations to people in a storm, symbolic of the disturbing effects His awesome presence produced (cf. Exodus 19:16-17; 1 Kings 19:11-13; 2 Kings 2:1; 2 Kings 2:11; Isaiah 6:4; Ezekiel 1:4; Zechariah 9:14). One wonders if Job’s friends thought God was about to strike Job dead with a bolt of lightning."Job’s troubles began when a great wind killed his children (Job 1:19). The Lord was in that storm, and now He speaks from the... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 38:1-6

G. The Cycle of Speeches between Job and God 38:1-42:6Finally, God spoke to Job and gave revelation that Job had been demanding for so long (cf. Job 13:22; Job 31:35). There was now no need for the middleman that Job had requested who could mediate between them (cf. Job 9:33; Job 16:19). Yahweh spoke directly to Job, and Job had the opportunity to respond directly to God."God challenged both Satan and Job by confronting them with his wondrous works. And since Job himself is the divine work by... 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 38:1

XXXVIII.(1) Then the Lord answered Job.—This chapter brings the grand climax and catastrophe of the poem. Unless all was to remain hopelessly uncertain and dark, there could be no solution of the questions so fiercely and obstinately debated but by the intervention of Him whose government was the matter in dispute. And so the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, or tempest: that is to say, the tempest which had been long gathering, and which had been the subject of Elihu’s remarks. The one... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 38:2

(2) Who is this?—The question may be answered by Job’s own words (Job 14:1). It is a man as so described, a dying and enfeebled man, like Job himself, not even a man in his best estate, but one so persecuted and exhausted as Job: one, therefore, altogether unequal to the task he has undertaken.That darkeneth counsel.—That is, probably, my counsel, which was the matter under debate. The words, however, are often used proverbially in a general sense. Such discussions, carried on, as they cannot... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 38:4

(4) Where wast thou?—The comparison of the creation of the world to the building of an edifice is such a concession to the feebleness of man as serves of itself to heighten the effect of the inevitable answer to the question preferred. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 38:7

(7) The morning stars.—The context seems to suggest that by the stars are meant the angels entrusted with their guardianship, from whence Milton has borrowed his conceptions. The magnificent sublimity of the expression and the thought needs no comment. read more

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