16Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?
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When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof. …
Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-24)The Lord here proceeds to ask Job many puzzling questions, to convince him of his ignorance, and so to shame him for his folly in prescribing to God. If we will but try ourselves with such interrogatories as these, we shall soon be brought to own that what we know is nothing in comparison with what we know not. Job is here challenged to give an account of six things:— I. Of the springs of the morn…
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