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7When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Job 38:7

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;

  • Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.

  • And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid. …

  • I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.

  • Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4-11)

For the humbling of Job, God here shows him his ignorance even concerning the earth and the sea. Though so near, though so bulky, yet he could give no account of their origination, much less of heaven above or hell beneath, which are at such a distance, or of the several parts of matter which are so minute, and then, least of all, of the divine counsels. I. Concerning the founding of the earth. “I…

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