18Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.
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And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them. …
Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.
For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;
Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
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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