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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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Albert Barnes
On Job 38:20
18th Century
Theologian
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…
Charles Ellicott
On Job 38:20
19th Century
Bishop
That you should take it —i.e., go with or track it.
John Gill
On Job 38:20
17th Century
Pastor
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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Matthew Henry
On Job 38:12–24
17th Century
Minister
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…