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 plorata maris, Job 28:11; for springs pour out water as eyes do tears; and the same Hebrew word signifieth an eye and a spring; because, saith one, the eye is of a watery constitution; or to show that from it, as from a spring or fountain, did flow both sin itself, the cause of sin, and misery, the punishment of both: and because by it came the greatest hurt, therefore God hath placed in it the greatest tokens of sorrow: iisdem quibus videmus oculis flemus. Now, if Job cannot fathom the sea, much less can he the deep counsels of God.
Or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?] Et in vado voraginis ambulasti? No; that is God's walk alone, Psalms 77:19, whatever the Papists' legend of their St Christopher.