“ When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? ”
When the morning-stars - There can be little doubt that angelic beings are intended here, though some have thought that the stars literally are referred to, and that they seemed to unite in a cho...
When the morning stars (e) sang together, and all the (f) sons of God shouted for joy? (e) The stars and dumb creatures are said to praise God, because his power, wisdom and goodness is manifest and...
Yahweh, speaking to Job out of the storm, challenges him to the contest, which he has so often demanded.
stars sang. Figure of speech Prosopopoeia. App-6. See App-12. sons of God . angels. See note on Genesis 6:2 , and the eight occurrences of the expression in O.T. See also App-23 and App-25.
When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? When the morning stars sang together - This must refer to some intelligent beings who existed before the creation of the...
When the morning stars sing together— It is observable from many passages in the prophets, that the angels are compared to, or spoken of, under the metaphor of stars: See particularly Isaiah 14:...
When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? Morning stars - especially beautiful. The creation-morn is appropriately associated with these, it being the comm...
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...
The morning stars. — The context seems to suggest that by the stars are meant the angels entrusted with their guardianship, from whence Milton has borrowed his conceptions. The magnificent sublimit...
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...
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...
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...
(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?...
When the morning stars sang together ,.... Either all the stars in a literal sense; for though, strictly speaking, there is but one morning star, yet all may be called so, because early created in t...
When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? Ver. 7. When the morning stars sang together ] There is but one morning star properly so called, viz. Phosphorus, Luc...
Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? This strong and durable building hath no foundations but God's power, which hath marvellously established it upon itself. Who laid the corner-stone?...
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...
The Creation of the World. B. C. 1520. 4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations o...
The morning stars; either, 1. The stars properly so called, who are said to sing and praise God, objectively, because they give men ample occasion to do it in regard of their glorious light and s...
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...
sons of God ( See Scofield) - ( Hebrews 1:4 ).
Job 38:6-7 The earth might have been regarded by the angels in reference either to its future inhabitants, or to God, or to the evil which had already found its way into the universe. I. In refer...
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...
Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? The laying of the earth’s foundation stone Our text brings before us a period long antecedent to the creation of man, when the first step was tak...
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 (...
The Manifestation of God's Majesty in Creation
Ezra 3:11 ; Ezra 3:12 ; Job 1:6 ; Job 2:1 ; Psalms 104:4 ; Revelation 2:28 ; Revelation 22:16 ; Revelation 5:11 ; Zechariah 4:7
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...
Stars — The angels, who may well be called morning — stars, because of their excellent lustre and glory. Sons of God — The angels called the sons of God, because they had their whole being from him...