Job 38:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great? ”

• Job 38:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? - This may either be a question, or it may be spoken ironically. According to the former mode of rendering it, it is the same as asking Job whether h...

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• Job 38:21 - 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 38:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Knowest thou it , because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great? Knowest thou - This is another strong and biting irony, and the literal translation proves it: "Thou kn...

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• Job 38:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great? Or, without the interrogation, in an ironical sense (Umbreit). Then - when I created light and dar...

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• Job 38:21 - 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 38:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Knowest thou it? — It is better to read this verse without an interrogation, as sublime irony. “Doubtless thou knowest all this, for thou wast born then, and the number of thy days is so great!”

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• Job 38:21 - 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 38:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  What Man Cannot Do Job 38:19-41 In this chapter a number of nature-pictures pass before us. These include the creation of the earth, Job 38:4-7 ; the sea, Job 38:8-11 ; light, Job 38:12-15 ;...

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• Job 38:21 - 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 38:21 - 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 38:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Knowest thou [it], because thou wast then born ?.... When light and darkness were first separated, and had their several apartments assigned them; their laws and rules given them, and their bounds a...

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• Job 38:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Knowest thou [it], because thou wast then born? or [because] the number of thy days [is] great? Ver. 21. Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? ] Beza readeth it thus, These things, forsoot...

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• Job 38:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? An ironical question. If thou pretendest that thou knowest these things, how camest thou by this knowledge? Was it because thou didst then exist in the...

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• Job 38:21 - 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 38:21 - 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 38:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  An ironical question: If thou pretendest that thou knowest these things, and canst readily answer these questions, how comest thou by this knowledge? Was it from hence, because thou wast born when I...

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• Job 38:21 - 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 38:21 - 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 38:21 - 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 38:21 - 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 38:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Job 15:7 ; Job 38:12 ; Job 38:4

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• Job 38:21 - 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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