Job 38

Job 38:2

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

Who is this, that ignorantly casts unjust aspersions upon the most wise and holy decrees and proceedings of the Almighty?

Job 38:7

When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.

When the glorious stars, in their first creation, did, in their kind, celebrate the praises of their Maker; and the angels of God, created by that Omnipotent Word of his, testified their joy and thankfulness to the God, that made them such. XXXVIII. 9, 10. When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and the thick darkness as the swaddling-band for it, and brake up (or, set) my decreed place. Whose power, when he had brought forth the sea as a new-born infant, wrapped it about with clouds, as with clouds and swaddling bands; and set upon it my everlasting decree, for the bounds and motion thereof.

Job 38:13

That the wicked might be shaken out of it.

That evil doers, who hate the light of the day, might be affrighted, by the rising of it, from their wicked projects.

Job 38:14

It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.

The earth is, by the coming of the light, changed into divers forms; and differs upon the impression thereof, as wax or clay doth at the stamping of a new seal, so as it seems quite other than it was; and men, especially guilty malefactors, are shifted by the breaking forth of the light, like so many several garments. XXXVIII. 22, 23. Treasures of snow, &c. which I have reserved against the time of trouble? Didst thou ever enter into that my storehouse of meteors, which I have decreed to bring forth upon all occasions of my judgments upon men?

Job 38:24

By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth;

Dost thou know how the lightning comes to break forth of the cloud; and how that vapour there included doth, with great violence, scatter a blustering wind upon the earth?

Job 38:31

Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

See chapter ix. v. 9. Canst thou alter the seasons of the year; or cause a restraint of the spring, summer, autumn, &c.?

Job 38:32

Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Areturus with his sons?

Canst thou bring forth those hidden stars of the south; or direct the northern constellations in their courses?

Job 38:33

Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? and canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?

Knowest thou what laws God hath made for the motions and influences of the heaven; and what power he hath given to their operations on the earth?