Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, by R.A. Torrey, [ca. 1880], at sacred-texts.com
Job Chapter 38
Overview
Job 38:1, God challenges Job to answer; Job 38:4, God, by his mighty works, convinces Job of ignorance, Job 38:31, and of imbecility.
Job 37:1, Job 37:2, Job 37:9, Job 37:14; Exo 19:16-19; Deu 4:11, Deu 4:12, Deu 5:22-24; Kg1 19:11; Kg2 2:1, Kg2 2:11; Eze 1:4; Nah 1:3
Job 12:3, Job 23:4, Job 23:5, Job 24:25, Job 26:3, Job 27:11, Job 34:35, Job 35:16, Job 42:3; Ti1 1:7
Gird: Job 40:7; Exo 12:11; Kg1 18:46; Jer 1:17; Pe1 1:13
for: Job 13:15, Job 13:22, Job 23:3-7, Job 31:35-37
answer thou me: Heb. make me know
Where: Pro 8:22, Pro 8:29, Pro 8:30, Pro 30:4
I: Gen 1:1; Psa 102:25, Psa 104:5; Heb 1:2, Heb 1:10
hast: Heb. knowest
laid: Job 11:9, Job 28:25; Pro 8:27; Isa 40:12, Isa 40:22
who hath stretched: Psa 19:4, Psa 78:55; Isa 34:11; Zac 2:1, Zac 2:2; Co2 10:16
Whereupon: Job 26:7; Sa1 2:8; Psa 24:2, Psa 93:1, Psa 104:5; Zac 12:1; Pe2 3:5
foundations: Heb. sockets, Exo 26:18-25
fastened: Heb. made to sink, or, Psa 118:22, Psa 144:12; Isa 28:16; Eph 2:20, Eph 2:21
the morning: Rev 2:28, Rev 22:16
the sons: Job 1:6, Job 2:1; Psa 104:4; Rev 5:11
shouted: Ezr 3:11, Ezr 3:12; Zac 4:7
who: Job 38:10; Gen 1:9; Psa 33:7, Psa 104:9; Pro 8:29; Jer 5:22
out: Job 38:29
thick: Gen 1:2
brake up for it my decreed place: or, established my decree upon it, Job 26:10; Gen 1:9, Gen 1:10, Gen 9:15; Psa 104:9; Jer 5:22
Hitherto: Thus far shall thy flux and reflux extend. The tides are marvellously limited and regulated, not only by the lunar and solar attraction, but by the quantum of time required to remove any part of the earth's surface, by its rotation round its axis, from under the immediate attractive influence of the sun and moon. Hence the attraction of the sun and moon, and the gravitation of the sea to its own centre, which prevent too great a flux on the one hand, and too great reflux on the other, are some of those bars and doors by which its proud waves are stayed, and prevented from coming farther. Psa 65:6, Psa 65:7, Psa 93:3, Psa 93:4; Pro 8:29; Mar 4:39-41
but: Job 1:22, Job 2:6; Psa 76:10, Psa 89:9; Isa 27:8; Luk 8:32, Luk 8:33; Rev 20:2, Rev 20:3, Rev 20:7, Rev 20:8
thy proud waves: Heb. the pride of thy waves
commanded: Gen 1:5; Psa 74:16, Psa 136:7, Psa 136:8, Psa 148:3-5
since: Job 38:4, Job 38:21, Job 8:9, Job 15:7
the dayspring: Luk 1:78; Pe2 1:19
take: Psa 19:4-6, Psa 139:9-12
ends: Heb. wings, Job 37:3 *marg.
the wicked: Job 24:13-17; Exo 14:27; Psa 104:21, Psa 104:22, Psa 104:35
from: Job 5:14, Job 18:5, Job 18:18; Exo 10:21-23; Kg2 6:18; Pro 4:19; Isa 8:21, Isa 8:22; Jer 13:16; Act 13:10, Act 13:11
the high: Psa 10:15, Psa 37:17; Eze 30:22
the springs: Psa 77:19; Pro 8:24; Jer 51:36
the gates: Psa 9:13, Psa 107:18, Psa 116:3
the shadow: Job 3:5, Job 12:22; Psa 23:4, Psa 107:10, Psa 107:14; Amo 5:8; Mat 4:16
Psa 74:17, Psa 89:11, Psa 89:12; Isa 40:28; Jer 31:37; Rev 20:9
the way: Job 38:12, Job 38:13; Gen 1:3, Gen 1:4, Gen 1:14-18; Deu 4:19; Isa 45:7; Joh 1:9, Joh 8:12
darkness: Psa 18:11, Psa 104:20, Psa 105:28; Jer 13:16; Eze 32:8; Amo 4:13; Mat 27:45
it to: or, it at
the bound: Gen 10:19, Gen 23:17
Job 6:16, Job 37:6; Psa 33:7, Psa 135:7
Job 36:31, Job 36:13; Exo 9:18, Exo 9:24; Jos 10:11; Isa 30:30; Eze 13:11-13; Mat 7:27; Rev 16:21
Job 38:12, Job 38:13; Jon 4:8; Mat 24:27
Job 28:26, Job 36:27, Job 36:28, Job 37:3-6; Psa 29:3-10
To cause: It is well known that rain falls copiously in thunder storms. The flash is first seen, the clap is next heard, and last the rain descends; though in fact they all take place at the same time. The lightning traverses all space in no perceivable succession of time. Sound is propagated at the rate of 1,142 feet in a second. Rain travels still more slowly, and will be seen sooner or later according to the weight of the drops, and the distance of the cloud. Now as water is composed of two elastic airs or gases, called oxygen and hydrogen, in the proportion of 88+ of the former and 11, 3/4 of the latter in 100 parts, the electric spark, or matter of lightning, passing through the atmosphere, ignites and decomposes those gases, which explode; and the water falls down in the form of rain. This explosion, as well as the rushing in of the circumambient air to restore the equilibrium, will account for the clap and peal; and thus by the lightning of thunder God causes it to rain on the earth.
on the wilderness: Psa 104:10-14, Psa 107:35, Psa 147:8, Psa 147:9; Isa 35:1, Isa 35:2, Isa 41:18, Isa 41:19, Isa 43:19, Isa 43:20; Jer 14:22; Heb 6:7, Heb 6:8
Hath the: Job 38:8, Job 5:9, Job 5:10; Sa1 12:17, Sa1 12:18; Psa 65:9, Psa 65:10; Jer 5:24, Jer 10:13, Jer 14:22; Joe 2:23; Amo 4:7; Mat 5:45
dew: Job 29:19; Gen 27:28, Gen 27:39; Deu 33:13, Deu 33:28; Sa2 1:21; Kg1 17:1; Pro 3:20; Hos 14:5
Job 38:8, Job 6:16, Job 37:10; Psa 147:16, Psa 147:17
the face: Job 37:10
frozen: Heb. taken
Pleiades: or, the seven stars, Heb. Cimah, Job 9:9 *marg. Amo 5:8
Orion: or, Cesil
Mazzaroth: or, the twelve signs, Probably the same as mazzaloth. Kg2 23:5
guide Arcturus: Heb. guide them, Job 9:9
the ordinances: Gen 1:16, Gen 8:22; Psa 119:90, Psa 119:91; Jer 31:35, Jer 31:36, Jer 33:25
Sa1 12:18; Amo 5:8; Zac 10:1; Jam 5:18
Canst: Exo 9:23-25, Exo 9:29; Lev 10:2; Num 11:1, Num 16:35; Kg2 1:10, Kg2 1:14; Rev 11:5, Rev 11:6
Here we are: Heb. Behold us, Sa1 22:12; Isa 6:8 *marg. Isa 65:1
Who hath put: Job 32:8; Psa 51:6; Pro 2:6; Ecc 2:26; Jam 1:5, Jam 1:17
who hath given: Exo 31:3, Exo 36:1, Exo 36:2; Isa 28:26
stay: Heb. cause to lie down
groweth into hardness: or, is turned into mire, Heb. is poured
Wilt: Job 4:10, Job 4:11; Psa 34:10, Psa 104:21, Psa 145:15, Psa 145:16
appetite: Heb. life