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That you should take it to the bound of it, That you should discern the paths to the house of it?
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Can You Guide the Light?
Commentators explain that God is rhetorically asking Job if he has the knowledge and power to guide light to its destination and back to its source. This question is designed to highlight the vast gap between human limitations and God's absolute control over the most fundamental elements of creation.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
That you should take it to the bounds of it - Margin, “or, at.” The sense seems to be this: God asks Job whether he was so well acq…
19th Century
Anglican
That you should take it —i.e., go with or track it.
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
That you should take it to the bound thereof Either darkness, or rather the light; take it as it were by the hand, a…
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The Lord questions Job, to convince him of his ignorance, and shame him for his folly in prescribing to God. If we examine ourselves in this way, w…
13th Century
Catholic
After the Lord has listed the principal parts of physical creation—that is, earth, sea, and sky—He begins here with the wonders of divine works tha…
