Job 38:39 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetitej of the young lions, ”

• Job 38:39 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? - The appeal here is to the instincts with which God has endowed animals, and to the fact that he had so made them that they would secure their own food. He...

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• Job 38:39 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Wilt (a) thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions, (a) After he had declared God's works in the heavens, he shows his marvellous providence in earth, even toward the...

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• Job 38:39 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job 38:39 to Job 39:30 . The Wonders of the Animate Creation. In Job 38:39 f. God first names the lion. Man would rather hunt and destroy the lion than feed him. But God cares for the lion as...

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• Job 38:39 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions, Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? - Rather the lioness, or strong lion. Hast thou his instinct? Dost thou know the h...

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• Job 38:39 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions, From this verse to Job 39:30 the instincts of animals are discussed. Is it thou that givest it the instinct to...

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• Job 38:39 - 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 38:39 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Wilt thou hunt the prey? — The new chapter ought to begin here with this verse, inasmuch as the animal creation now passes under review.

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• Job 38:39 - 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 38:39 - 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 38:39 - 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 38:39 - 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 38:39 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion ?.... From meteors the Lord passes to animals, beasts, and birds, wherefore some here begin the thirty ninth chapter, which only treats of such; and he begins wi...

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• Job 38:39 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions, Ver. 39. Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? ] Heb. For the old lion, as Nehemiah 2:9 , that cannot hunt for himse...

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• Job 38:39 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? Is it by thy care and providence that the lions, who live in desert places, are furnished with necessary provisions? This is justly mentioned as another wonder...

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• Job 38:39 - 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 38:39 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  God's Sovereign Dominion and Goodness. B. C. 1520.       25 Who hath divided a watercourse f...

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• Job 38:39 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Is it by thy care and providence that the lions, who live in desert places, are furnished with necessary provisions? This is justly mentioned as another wonderful work of God.

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• Job 38:39 - 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 38:39 - 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 38:39 - 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 38:39 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion, or the lioness, or fill the appetite of the young lions, appeasing their constant craving for food,

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• Job 38:39 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Job 4:10 ; Job 4:11 ; Psalms 104:21 ; Psalms 145:15 ; Psalms 145:16 ; Psalms 34:10

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• Job 38:39 - 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 38:39 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Hunt — Is it by thy care that the lions who live in desert places are furnished with necessary provisions? This is another wonderful work of God.

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