John Gill Commentary Job 25:3

John Gill Commentary

Job 25:3

1697–1771
Reformed Baptist
John Gill
John Gill

John Gill Commentary

Job 25:3

1697–1771
Reformed Baptist
SCRIPTURE

"Is there any number of his armies? And upon whom doth not his light arise?" — Job 25:3 (ASV)

Is there any number of his armies ?
&c.] His armies in heaven, the heavenly host of angels, which are innumerable; there are more than twelve legions of them, thousand and ten thousand times ten thousand, employed in a military way, for the safety and preservation of the saints; see (Genesis 32:1Genesis 32:2) (Psalms 34:7) ; and the sun, moon, and stars, often called the host of heaven, the latter of which cannot be numbered, and which fought in their courses against Sisera, (Judges 5:20) ; and his armies on earth, all the inhabitants of it; yea, every creature, even the smallest insect in it, which are without number: thus, frogs, lice, flies, and locusts, were the armies of God, with which he fought against Pharaoh and the Egyptians, see (Joel 2:11Joel 2:20) ;

and upon whom does not his light arise ?
either natural light, that grand luminary the sun, which rises on all, the evil and the good, nor is anything hid from the light and heat of it; or moral light, the light of nature, with which everyone that comes into the world is enlightened by him; or the light of providential goodness, which is unto all, and over all his creatures; the whole earth is full of it, and all the inhabitants have a share in it; nor is anything hid from his all piercing, all penetrating, all seeing eye, who is light itself, and dwells in light inaccessible, and from which light nothing can be hid.