Job 38
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Lutheran reading notes
In Job chapter 38, the wisdom literature continues to explore suffering, divine justice, and faithfulness amid trial. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes humanity’s limitations and the need to rely on God's grace and promises. The chapter highlights the contrast between human striving and the faithfulness of God.
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Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
Job 38:1 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Who {is} this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
Job 38:2 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. {answer...: Heb. make me know}
Job 38:3 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. {hast...: Heb. knowest understanding}
Job 38:4 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
Job 38:5 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; {foundations: Heb. sockets} {fastened: Heb. made to sink?}
Job 38:6 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Job 38:7 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Or {who} shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, {as if} it had issued out of the womb?
Job 38:8 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
Job 38:9 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And brake up for it my decreed {place}, and set bars and doors, {brake...: or, established my decree upon it}
Job 38:10 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed? {thy...: Heb. the pride of thy waves}
Job 38:11 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; {and} caused the dayspring to know his place;
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That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it? {ends: Heb. wings}
Job 38:13 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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It is turned as clay {to} the seal; and they stand as a garment.
Job 38:14 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.
Job 38:15 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?
Job 38:16 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
Job 38:17 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.
Job 38:18 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Where {is} the way {where} light dwelleth? and {as for} darkness, where {is} the place thereof,
Job 38:19 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths {to} the house thereof? {to the bound: or, at, etc}
Job 38:20 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Knowest thou {it}, because thou wast then born? or {because} the number of thy days {is} great?
Job 38:21 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,
Job 38:22 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
Job 38:23 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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By what way is the light parted, {which} scattereth the east wind upon the earth?
Job 38:24 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;
Job 38:25 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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To cause it to rain on the earth, {where} no man {is; on} the wilderness, wherein {there is} no man;
Job 38:26 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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To satisfy the desolate and waste {ground}; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
Job 38:27 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
Job 38:28 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
Job 38:29 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The waters are hid as {with} a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen. {is...: Heb. is taken}
Job 38:30 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? {Pleiades: or, the seven stars: Heb. Cimah} {Orion: Heb. Cesil?}
Job 38:31 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons? {Mazzaroth: or, the twelve signs} {guide: Heb. guide them}
Job 38:32 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
Job 38:33 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?
Job 38:34 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we {are}? {Here...: Heb. Behold us?}
Job 38:35 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?
Job 38:36 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven, {stay: Heb. cause to lie down}
Job 38:37 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together? {groweth...: or, is turned into mire: Heb. is poured}
Job 38:38 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions, {the appetite: Heb. the life}
Job 38:39 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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When they couch in {their} dens, {and} abide in the covert to lie in wait?
Job 38:40 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
Job 38:41 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.