Job 38:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth? ”

• Job 38:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? - The word here rendered “springs” ( נבך nêbek ), occurs nowhere else in the Scriptures. It is rendered by the Vulgate “profunda,” the deep par...

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• Job 38:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the (m) depth? (m) If you are not able to seek out the depth of the sea, how much less are you able to comprehend...

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• Job 38:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Wonders of the Inanimate Creation. Where was Job when the earth was made? The work of creation is described as the building of a house. In Job 38:7 the stars, which are older than the world (...

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• Job 38:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  search . secret.

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• Job 38:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth? Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? - Of these springs, inlets, or outlets of the sea, we kno...

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• Job 38:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea?— Hast thou been at the sources of the sea? Hast thou traversed the depths of the abyss? Heath.

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• Job 38:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth? Springs - fountains beneath the sea ( Psalms 95:4 ). Search , х cheeqer ( H2714 )] - rath...

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• Job 38:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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 forc...

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• Job 38:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The search of the depth — i.e., the secret recesses of it. The “springs of the sea” are rather, perhaps, the mazes, intricacies, &c. of the trackless, pathless deep. This leads to the cogna...

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• Job 38:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XXVII. "MUSIC IN THE BOUNDS OF LAW" Job 38:1-41 OVER the shadowed life of Job, and the world shadowed for him by his own intellectual and moral gloom, a storm sweeps, and from the storm issues...

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• Job 38:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Divine Power and Human Ignorance Job 38:1-18 When the storm had ceased and the thunder was hushed, a voice spoke out of the golden splendor of the sky. See Job 37:21-22 . Job had challenged Go...

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• Job 38:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Here begins the third movement in the great drama, that which deals with the controversy between Jehovah and Job. Out of the midst of the whirlwind the divine voice speaks. Its first word is a challe...

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• Job 38:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (4) В¶ Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. (5) Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?...

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• Job 38:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea ?.... The subterraneous passages through which the waters flow into the sea and supply it; or the springs and fountains that rise up at the bottom of it...

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• Job 38:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth? Ver. 16. Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? ] Heb. into the tears of the sea, Usque ad p...

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• Job 38:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea Hebrew, נבכי ים, nibchee jam, Fletus, qui, ex maris profunditatibus currunt, ut lacrymæ ex occulis. Schindler: the springs which flow from the depth...

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• Job 38:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  Marvellously, God Himself directly intervenes in this discussion so early in the history of man. The storm that had been brewing as Elihu spoke becomes a whirlwind, and God spoke to Job out of the wh...

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• Job 38:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Works of God. B. C. 1520.       12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and cau...

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• Job 38:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The springs, Heb. the tears , i.e. the several springs out of which the waters of the sea flow as tears do from the eyes. Hast thou found out the utmost depth and bottom of the sea, which in diver...

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• Job 38:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  JEHOVAH’S ADDRESS TO JOB Elihu had now said all he intended. Possibly interrupted by the storm which had been gathering during his speech. Out of the storm-cloud, from which already issued thund...

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• Job 38:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 38:1 . The whirlwind. Clouds and flames are the chariots of the Lord, in deigning to speak with men. When he spake to Elijah in Horeb, it was with wind, and fire, and earthquake. Likewise in...

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• Job 38:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth? High tides What a fascination there is about a high tide! Passing through Manchester, I noticed t...

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• Job 38:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  CLOSE OF THE CONTROVERSY BY THE INTERFERENCE OF THE ALMIGHTY . EXPOSITION The discourse, by which the Almighty answers Job and rebukes his "friends," occupies four chapters (...

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• Job 38:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  God's Majesty in the Forces of NatuRev. 16. Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea, the great fountains of the deep, Genesis 7, 11? Or hast thou walked in the search of the depth, to exam...

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• Job 38:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Jeremiah 51:36 ; Job 26:5 ; Job 26:6 ; Proverbs 8:24 ; Psalms 77:19

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• Job 38:16 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  God Speaks to Job Job 38:1-41 to Job 42:1-17 INTRODUCTORY WORDS God's words to Job do not carry much by way of the explanation of redemption. Job was a child of God, and well-instructed...

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• Job 38:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Springs — Heb. the tears; the several springs out of which the waters of the sea flow as tears do from the eyes. Walked — Hast thou found out the utmost depth of the sea, which in divers places cou...

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