21Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great?
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Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
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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