33Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
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Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name: …
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; …
He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass.
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25-41)Hitherto God had put such questions to Job as were proper to convince him of his ignorance and short-sightedness. Now he comes, in the same manner, to show his impotency and weakness. As it is but little that he knows, and therefore he ought not to arraign the divine counsels, so it is but little that he can do, and therefore he ought not to oppose the proceedings of Providence. Let him consider w…
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