Job 38
1 God challenges Job to answer.
4 God, by his mighty works, convinces Job of ignorance,
31 and of imbecility.
Get ready <0247> [Gird.]
question <07592> [for.]
inform <03045> [answer thou me. Heb. make me know.]
Where <0375> [Where.]
foundation <03245> [I.]
possess <03045> [hast. Heb. knowest.]
set <07760> [laid.]
stretched <05186> [who hath stretched.]
bases <0134> [Whereupon.]
bases <0134> [foundations. Heb. sockets.]
set <02883> [fastened. Heb. made to sink. or.]
morning <01242> [the morning.]
sons <01121> [the sons.]
sang ... chorus ........ shouted <07321> [shouted.]
shut up <05526> [who.]
coming out <03318> [out.]
thick darkness <06205> [thick.]
when ... prescribed ... limits <02706 07665> [brake up for it my decreed place. or, established my decree upon it.]
To <05704> [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.
farther <03254> [but.]
proud waves <01530 01347> [thy proud waves. Heb. the pride of thy waves.]
commanded <06680> [commanded.]
life <03117> [since.]
dawn <07837> [the dayspring.]
seize <0270> [take.]
corners <03671> [ends. Heb. wings.]
wicked <07563> [the wicked.]
garment <03830> [as a.]
wicked <07563> [from.]
raised <07311> [the high.]
springs <05033> [the springs.]
walked <01980> [walked.]
gates ............ gates <08179> [the gates.]
deepest darkness <06757> [the shadow.]
direction <01870> [the way.]
darkness <02822> [darkness.]
borders <01366> [it to. or, it at. the bound.]
rain <04305> [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.
desert <04057> [on the wilderness.]
Does ... rain <03426 04306> [Hath the.]
dew <02919> [dew.]
surface <06440> [the face.]
solid <03920> [frozen. Heb. taken.]
Pleiades <03598> [Pleiades. or, the seven stars. Heb. Cimah.]
Orion <03685> [Orion. or, Cesil.]
constellations <04216> [Mazzaroth. or, the twelve signs.]
Probably the same as {mazzaloth.}
guide ... Bear <05906 05148> [guide Arcturus. Heb. guide them.]
laws <02708> [the ordinances.]
set <07760> [canst.]
send <07971> [Canst.]
[Here we are. Heb. Behold us.]
<07896> [Who hath put.]
<05414> [who hath given.]
count <05608> [number.]
tip <07901> [or who.]
tip <07901> [stay. Heb. cause to lie down.]
hardens into ... mass <03332 04165> [groweth into hardness. or, is turned into mire. Heb. is poured.]
hunt <06679> [Wilt.]
<02416> [appetite. Heb. life.]
